Loading ...A free tool used to block all advertisements while using Mozilla’s Firefox Browser has been released and making some people angry. Creator of Adblock Plus, Wladimir Palant specifically states it is only available for Firefox, and doesn’t plan to create an Adblock for Internet Explorer. For more details of Adblock Plus, keep watching WebProNews.
No legal issues yet.
When you block on-page ads, you modify copyrighted material for which you have not been granted the permission to do so. That is grounds for legal action.
I totally agree with giving the user the power to choose what content they want to see. A legal way to achieve this is for the filter to ask: ‘This page contains advertising. Do you want to view the page?’
Whether or not the user actually pays attention to the ads is a whole different matter, and it is the user’s right to ignore it, just like you may fast-forward over commercials.
The copyrighted content argument doesn’t fly. “Fair use”, among other things, would seem to suggest that once you download a given page, you can do whatever you want with the contents of it just so long as you don’t republish, although there are allowances even for that in some cases, with ot without permission.
Looking at it from a different perspective, does copyright law say you can’t cut a newspaper or magazine page up for your own use? If you record a television program, are you legally bound to not fast forward or even edit out advertisements?
Time has come to provides full support to microsoft’s effort to kill mozilla.org
Exactly. adblockers are a minor factor which barely offsets the proliferation of all the mindless MFA drivel.
“When you block on-page ads, you modify copyrighted material for which you have not been granted the permission to do so. That is grounds for legal action.”
You think you have a “right” to press advertising on me because it is copyrighted? According to your entirely novel theory, I would not be able to destroy a book some gave me. Copyright says I cannot redistribute protected material to others. But I remain free to fold, bend, spindle or mutilate my own copy any way I like. Nor am I required to read it beforehand. Get a freaking grip.
Excellent work buddy, keep writing.