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[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 130 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Let it stand. If ads are an integral part of the work and its message, let's make the website owners fully legally responsible for the content of every single ad they display. If any ad contains malware or is a scam let's throw the C-suite in jail for it.

That would solve most of the issues with ads really fast.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 51 points 1 year ago

Seeing Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerfucker and Satya Nadella sweating bullets for all the scam spam ads they gleefully allow would be so fucking worth it!

[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

Small sites would disappear, big sites would continue as before. Laws barely apply to the rich.

[-] JCreazy@midwest.social 49 points 1 year ago
[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

That's fine, they'll just withhold the content, then.

[-] uriel238 6 points 1 year ago

Please do.

I'm glad to not watch content that is enshittified by ads... or is enshittified by poor development.

[-] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

If they actually did that they'd go out of business really fast. They have to fight against your right to block ads instead.

[-] electricprism@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 year ago

Drink verification can.

[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 year ago

So now copyright infringement is both consuming media and refusing to consume media, based on the arbitrary intent of the copyright holder?

Also if, according to this lawsuit, it's illegal to be "meddling with the appearance of the publisher’s website in users’ browsers", then wouldn't that make it illegal for Netflix to drop to a lower resolution when bandwidth gets low? After all, if the publisher gives them a 4K source file and Netflix drops it to 720p, isn't that meddling with the appearance in user's browsers?

[-] RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social 35 points 1 year ago

So... is a coffee stain a copyright infringement? Kinda seems like it would be, by this logic. Hell, if they keep at it for long enough we'll see them going after somebody over a bookmark or a cracked screen. Just more asinine "IP" bullshit.

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago

LoL that seems same legal topic as moding games, which we know game publishers can not do anything against, if the mod is delivered without the binary and it does not circumvent DRM stuff

[-] far_university190@feddit.org 9 points 1 year ago

And does not contain ip. See nintendo take down palword mod that add pokemon.

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

It is only an issue if something adds copyright protected material, but not if it changes something copyright protected by removing stuff or even by adding stuff that is not copyright protected.

[-] cupcakezealot 25 points 1 year ago

if ad blocking infringes on copyright then every premium service from streaming companies that is ad-free is illegal.

[-] uriel238 18 points 1 year ago

Death to IP. Full stop.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

I can do whatever I want with my copy.

Copyright is about distribution.

[-] SweetMylk@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

I want to see them win, just to see springer sites getting blocked everywhere, cause if you cannot download it there is no chance of infringement.

[-] 5in1k@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I’m going to infringe copyright so hard.

[-] Eggyhead@kbin.run 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’m not blocking ads, I’m just avoiding them.

this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2024
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