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> Checking user agent doesn't meet the requirement to be considered an effective access control technological measure. I highly doubt that. Keep in mind that a
by alpaca128 8y ago
> Checking user agent doesn't meet the requirement to be considered an effective access control technological measure.
I highly doubt that. Keep in mind that age restrictions which make you hit a single button to circumvent them are much worse in keeping the wrong users out, and afaik legally they're perfectly fine.
"Effective access control" means they have to do something which may work to some degree and doesn't have to be a burden financially or technically.
- cipherzero 8y agoWould you be making the same argument if we were talking about your bank's website? IMO Effective access control works both ways. you can't send the ALL of the content back and then have the access control work on the client machine. What if i just used curl and viewed the HTML raw to read the article?
- c2h5oh 8y agoAh, but in this case we're provided a definition: > a technological measure “effectively controls access to a work” if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work. 17 U.S. Code § 1201 (a) (3) (B)