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Without a license, there's nothing giving you the right to visit a website, because the copyright law says so. Legally speaking, you either agree to whatever li
by bad_user 11y ago
Without a license, there's nothing giving you the right to visit a website, because the copyright law says so. Legally speaking, you either agree to whatever license the website has in place, or you've got no right to view its content.
Of course, such a license cannot have provisions that conflict with copyright or contract law and so doctrines like the fair use applies, etc.
Of course, you could say that you can't read any license, or any privacy policy and you can't observe any unwanted behavior without first loading that website. But then again, people could build and use an extension that blocks websites and warns people of unwanted characteristics. But that's not what people are doing.
> Second, Blizzard game bots use a part of the company's codebase, where the ad blocker works solely in my own browser. They do not rely on proprietary code that belongs to someone else.
That's a weak argument. Blizzard games do not run directly over hardware, but on top of an operating system that exposes high level APIs, such as DirectX or OpenGL, being in many ways just as high-level as the browser is.
- patmcc 11y ago>>Without a license, there's nothing giving you the right to visit a website, because the copyright law says so. Is there any case law to back that up? That's a very odd reading of copyright law. Would you make the same claim about listening to a radio, viewing a television broadcast, or reading a poster?
- bad_user 11y agohttps://www.eff.org/wp/clicks-bind-ways-users-agree-online-terms-service https://www.eff.org/wp/clicks-bind-ways-users-agree-online-t... https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/decision-23jan04-en.pdf https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/decision-23jan04...
- unprepare 11y ago>there's nothing giving you the right to visit a website Except for the fact that it is being purposefully made available to the general public.
- bad_user 11y agoNot sure what you're trying to say, as all copyrighted works are made available to the general public, that being the whole purpose of copyright law.
- unprepare 11y agoI do enter into an agreement when i go to a theater to watch a movie - I have paid for a ticket to a specific movie, consented to the business' rules (who in turn had to agree to the creators rules), etc. On the other hand, when i view a billboard, i have entered into no such agreement. I just moved my eyes and there it was - i consented to nothing, i purchased nothing, i am under no obligation to take any action or to behave within certain defined parameters. Since a website is made publicly viewable, it is not at all like a movie, it is instead like a billboard. I enter no contract when i move my gaze onto a public resource (be it digitally or physically). Or should I start putting up billboards with cameras tracking license plates and MPH, with fine print saying you agree to be physically tracked using my billboards and allowing me to send all collected information to the police and advertisers? And then when you block my camera, i will sue you for breaking the TOS of my billboard, that you consented to by seeing the billboard.
- DanBlake 11y agowrong. you interact with a website. you need to request its files, html, images. You request nothing of a billboard.
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