Comment on 'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 day agoI agree: website owners cannot tell people how to read their sites.
But they only re-opened the case; nothing happened yet.
And considering how the very similar youtube-dl DMCA takedown failed so utterly, I don’t think this will go anywhere either.
But yeah, companies will try again and again.
There’s also an important point not addressed in the above comment: Springer is specifically sueing Adblock Plus (and not the way more popular uBO) who have a commercial model where companies can pay them to let their ads through, and some other fishy practices.
grue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
But see, that’s what I’m saying: the court was wrong to consider that 25th box a thing that needed ticking to begin with. There was nothing that needed re-opening because if the computer owner’s property rights were as secure as they’re supposed to be the reason given for sending the case back to the lower court should’ve been considered irrelevant!