• TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world
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    When the web pages are called up by the web browser, the HTML file is transferred to the RAM on the user’s device. To display the HTML file, the web browser interprets its content, creating additional data structures. The plaintiff sees the influence on these data structures by the ad blocker as an unauthorized modification of a computer program

    This has to be the most idiotic thing I read this week.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      The plaintiff sees the influence on these data structures by the ad blocker as an unauthorized modification of a computer program

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          Gotta make curl illegal now. Or why stop there? All Http clients! Nothing could go wrong 😊

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        How very very dare you to modify the contents of this media to your liking, you horrible soulless excuse for a human being.

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          How dare you interpret this media with your mind in a way we never intended! Now that your brain has processed our information, it is an asset of Sony corporation. All your brain and its thoughts below to us.

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      The original idiocy here is the DMCA, this and the other idiocies practised in its name are consequences. Over time the idiocies build up as case law precedents until new and ever more egregious cases are made, some of which stick (as in throw shit at the wall and see what sticks) and the cycle continues. Eventually the only way to root it out becomes new legislation.

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        Eventually the only way to root it out becomes new legislation.

        Or violence, which is justified self-defense when tyrants are trying to destroy everyone’s property rights.

        Make no mistake: these companies are trying to subjugate us and turn us into the digital equivalent of serfs, to be exploited without recourse. We should be a lot more pissed off about this than we are!