Downvotes are not for disagreeing with people on Hacker News. I disagree with your post but I upvoted it. There is a legal difference between distributing some

Downvotes are not for disagreeing with people on Hacker News. I disagree with your post but I upvoted it. There is a legal difference between distributing someone's content oneself and linking to it. However, I will grant you that CBC's ToS says: "CBC/Radio Canada reserves the right to prohibit or refuse to accept any link to the Web site...You agree to remove any link you may have to the Web site upon the request of CBC/Radio Canada." Of course, that is not the allegation being made. The question is when a web browser crosses from "neutral tool to serve web content legally" to "proprietary tool that serves web content illegally." The for-profit nature of the app has nothing to do with it because there is nothing illegal about charging money for a web browser even though it's not done. The issue is how incompletely the intended web experience is rendered before it is infringement, and I do not believe that stripping out everything from a webpage but the links is infringement so long as the content is legal and the trademark is not being violated.