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"Advertising is one of the commonest ways of financing Web sites and services.
There’s nothing wrong with that, at least in principle. But the fact that,
according to one estimate, 42% of Internet users worldwide employ an ad blocker
to remove those ads from their screens is a clear sign that something is
seriously wrong. Instead of taking note of the reasons that people use ad
blockers, one publisher has gone on the attack, claiming that it has a right to
force people to view the ads on its sites, whether they are wanted or not, and
that ad blocking programs are illegal.
The German media publishing giant Axel Springer had previously sued Eyeo, the
makers of the popular AdBlock Plus program, no less than five times — and lost
every case, including at Germany’s Supreme Court, which ought to have been the
end of the story. But in a last, desperate attempt, Springer sued again,
claiming that using an ad blocker was copyright infringement. It said that the
copyright protection of the HTML underlying a Web page was so strong, that a
user was forbidden by law from causing any modification to how that HTML code
was displayed on the screen. Eyeo explains what the consequences of this crazy
logic would be"
Via Glyn Moody, who wrote "absurd and dangerous"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
