Lemmy
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 month ago

'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court

torrentfreak.com

external-link
message-square
15
link
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • linustechtips@lemmit.online
  • linustechtips@lemmit.online
  • linustechtips@lemmit.online
  • legalnews@lemmy.zip
  • technology@lemmy.zip
  • piracy@lemmit.online
  • hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
  • technology@leminal.space
  • piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
95
external-link

'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court

torrentfreak.com

schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 month ago
message-square
15
link
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • linustechtips@lemmit.online
  • linustechtips@lemmit.online
  • linustechtips@lemmit.online
  • legalnews@lemmy.zip
  • technology@lemmy.zip
  • piracy@lemmit.online
  • hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
  • technology@leminal.space
  • piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court * TorrentFreak
torrentfreak.com
external-link
Legal action by publisher Axel Springer, which aims to outlaw ad blocking on copyright grounds, has been revived by Germany's top court.
  • Chahk@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    28
    ·
    1 month ago

    I’m OK with letting websites not allowing me to block ads, as long as I can hold them personally liable for content of any ads they serve up.

    No? Then kindly fuck right off with this shit.

Technology@beehaw.org

technology@beehaw.org

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@beehaw.org

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

  • Free and Open Source Software
  • Programming
  • Operating Systems

This community’s icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 261 users / day
  • 1.16K users / week
  • 2.75K users / month
  • 4.43K users / 6 months
  • 2 local subscribers
  • 40.4K subscribers
  • 433 Posts
  • 3.58K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Chris Remington@beehaw.org
  • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.org
  • TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org
  • gyrfalcon@beehaw.org
  • rs5th@beehaw.org
  • coldredlight@beehaw.org
  • Leigh@beehaw.org
  • BE: 0.19.12
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org