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Ad Blocking Infringes Copyright? Ancient Sony Cheat Lawsuit May Prove Pivotal

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Ad Blocking Infringes Copyright? Ancient Sony Cheat Lawsuit May Prove Pivotal

https://torrentfreak.com/ad-blocking-infringes-copyright-ancient-sony-cheat-lawsuit-may-prove-pivotal-240729/

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BlitzFitz @lemmy.world
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I didn’t know this was how adblockers and sites worked in general.

If the html file is on the users device and they overwrite it, via an ad blocker, that is in their rights as the property owner of the machine.

Seems like sites need to get creative in new ways to force ads, which I’m sure will be a different kind of intrusive, instead of trying to push their ownership into the space of the users systems.

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InFerNo@lemmy.ml
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I thought ad blockers simply prevent that part from being downloaded, saving bandwidth. In that case, there is no manipulation, it was never there to begin with.

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Overwrite doesn’t even seem accurate. They’re mostly just blocking connections to malicious domains, with a little blocking malicious portions of scripts from executing.

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