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"Now, it is possible that one of the sites hit the Bypass Paywalls Clean add-on with a DMCA notice, which in turn could have resulted in Mozilla delisting the e
by dewey 4y ago
"Now, it is possible that one of the sites hit the Bypass Paywalls Clean add-on with a DMCA notice, which in turn could have resulted in Mozilla delisting the extension from its store. I'm not entirely sure about this, because if that was the case, wouldn't Mozilla have notified the developer?"
Before you get outraged, please keep in mind that this is all speculation at this point and there's no official response from Mozilla saying they removed it for the reason of it being a paywall bypass.
- 0xcde4c3db 4y agoAlso, AFAIK notification only pertains to one part of DMCA: the "safe harbor" for infringing user-posted content. DRM-breaking tech is banned under a separate section that, to my knowledge, has no equivalent protection for the "service provider". So if Mozilla's lawyers became aware of this add-on, they might have reasonably concluded that hosting it was an unacceptable risk.
- layer8 4y agoIt’s still bad that they would remove any add-on without notifying the maintainer of the reason.
- tarotuser 4y ago"But if we told you why, you could..... subvert the system!"
- altairprime 4y agoThe maintainer says they received a DMCA notification here: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean/-/issues/905#note_1276138260 https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea... That doesn’t say whether or not they intend to counterclaim, though.