So, if the DMCA request turns out to be valid (e.g. hypothetically in court), shouldn't all the ad-serving domains just include a similar anti-adblock measure on their ad servers, thus making it so, that blocking their servers would count as a circumvention?
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#382Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hadn't edited a hosts file since college, boy that was fun!
You can add it to "My filters" within uO. Host file has no wildcard support which you need for full coverage.
what is uO? I've been using a hosts file. I'd love to up my game.
Ahhh... other comments are saying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin
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#383Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It is very naive to think the current Republican congress is anything different or new The Democrats are doing now what the Republicans did for the last 8 years. And I imagine in 7 years the opposite will happen.
The Republicans control congress and the presidency. With some exceptions, Republicans don't need a single Democratic vote to pass legislation.
Most legislation needs 60 votes to pass the Senate, which means you need at least 8 Democrats (counting the two independents with them). Legislation which Republicans can pass by themselves is the exception, not the rule. One of the problems they had with their health care bill was that it had to fit into the narrow budget reconciliation rules so that they could pass it with a simple majority.
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#384Are they going to issue DMCA takedown requests to the other (currently) 76 forks?
I would assume they'll follow up with a single request targeting all forks. You can see in many of GitHub's other listed takedowns that one request can target multiple repositories and forks at once.
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#385Are they going to issue DMCA takedown requests to the other (currently) 76 forks?
I would assume they'll follow up with a single request targeting all forks. You can see in many of GitHub's other listed takedowns that one request can target multiple repositories and forks at once.
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#386From a recent WSJ article about anti-ad blocking companies: “We really think the free internet is at risk because of ad-blocking, so these types of solutions are needed to turn the tide”, said Dan Rua, CEO of ad-blocking “revenue recovery” company Admiral, which recently raised $2.5 million to help build its platform."[1] It's amazing how selective the CEO's concern for the "free internet" is. Threatening community g…
From Dan Rua's LinkedIn: >The power of the internet to inform, entertain and liberate mankind is at a crossroads. The future of ad-supported content is in peril, and with it, free access for citizens to critical news, education, discourse and resources the world over. The shorthand name for this looming catastrophe is "adblocking" It's like a pimp claiming the human race is going to stop reproducing and die out becau…
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#387Can we have a list of domains that should be excluded from these kinds of lists, so they may not be added again by accident?
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#388It was admiral that did this: https://blog.getadmiral.com/dmca-easylist-adblock-copyright-... They even clearly state they used the only tool available to them, DCMA. From all the current summaries on this, DMCA does not apply to a line entry in easylist. A domain can be trademarked. This should be added back in. And if github cannot standup to DMCA abuse, then well, easylist and all other developers should be giving…
> And if github cannot standup to DMCA abuse, then well, easylist and all other developers should be giving a clear hard though to their continued use of the github platform. This. This is the main topic here. The wide use of centralized services (such as Github, but it applies also to Facebook, Google et al.) makes you dependent to corporate decisions, including coward (or maybe rational) decisions towards freedom o…
It's not Github's job to stand up to DMCA notices. The law requires them to forward them to the account publishing the content without any consideration of the merits. Then, easylist has the option to comply or refuse.
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#389It was admiral that did this: https://blog.getadmiral.com/dmca-easylist-adblock-copyright-... They even clearly state they used the only tool available to them, DCMA. From all the current summaries on this, DMCA does not apply to a line entry in easylist. A domain can be trademarked. This should be added back in. And if github cannot standup to DMCA abuse, then well, easylist and all other developers should be giving…
Good to hear. I sincerely hope this turns into a lawsuit to scare off others who may be watching the outcome of this to decide if they should try the DMCA route, too.
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#390Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kim should have chosen a different country. One that isn't so keen on letting the US raid their citizens.
I don't think such a country exists. The influence of American's empire, and its entertainment industry, is pretty vast.
Russia and China come to mind.