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Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

and if the ad blocker modified the byte code (either directly or by modifying the source), then that would constitute a modification of code and hence run afoul of copyright protections as derivative work.

Insanity - modifying code that runs on your machine in no way is even remotely related to copyright.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Cracking code/verification systems on your computer is also code running on your system, there are literally people in prison for running the code that cracks a program, BECAUSE of copyright laws.

So I'm not sure your setting how bad it already is for users.

(What should be, is not what we are talking about, for the record)