I'm watching a panel about ad-blocking and one of the panelists is discussing potential legal remedies. Against ad blockers. #mlrc
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Especially if traffic is coming in from social. Good luck getting those TOU to be enforceable
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Panelist is being very careful to say these aren't *great* legal arguments, but he keeps saying "creative lawyering."
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This is creative lawyering like monkey selfie is creative lawyering
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oh my god we're going down a copyright infringement hypo re: adblockers and i want to die
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the copyright theory is that the READER is infringing copyright and the adblocker is inducing "seems like a challenging claim to me"

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Shoutout to the Brave browser. Panelist says that this is the case he'd litigate if he were a publisher.
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"If I were a judge, I'd say, 'What value do you add, you're just an asshole.'"
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Cooper cuts in to clarify that Brave replaces ads with non-tracking ads, takes a cut off the top, and then gives ad $ to publishers
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If the sites were paying for the ad bandwidth, they might have grounds to sue.
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@ipikak1 .... .... no - 1 réponse de plus
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Le chargement semble prendre du temps.
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