4 ms·
Meh this guy seems so full of himself. What if the company could act as a kind of printing service so that the user must posses the rights to access the materia
by jeffe3000 12y ago
Meh this guy seems so full of himself. What if the company could act as a kind of printing service so that the user must posses the rights to access the material in first place, sounds like a good idea to me.
- Mandatum 12y agoThese companies can and do exist, the onus is put onto the user to not submit materials they don't have permission/rights to print or share. This would be a little hard for printing personalized news websites that remove ads however..
- hamburglar 12y agoI don't know, it doesn't seem so cut and dried to me. I can print out web pages for my own personal use, and I can even run adblock while I do it. Can I remotely print them at my personal assistant's office and ask him to deliver them to me? It seems like the very specific personal use case for the content could provide a lot of wiggle room for lawyerin' if they really wanted to pursue it.
- Mandatum 12y agoI agree but it likely wouldn't be worth the hassle. Technically they're taking content for different sources, stripping ads and reselling the content in a different media format. It'd be akin to recording a song off of the radio, removing ad breaks and selling it as a CD/downloadable MP3. Law may differ with publications and citing sources however.
- MichaelGG 12y agoIs it legal to record songs from the radio to a CD, even for personal use? If not then it's not like what they're doing at all. If it's legal to print a page your browser renders, then it should be legal to have someone else run the printer for you. "Removing ad breaks" is a simple browser function. It's an interesting business (not that I have that much use for paper printouts of web pages) and this article does a poor job of explaining why it should be shut down. Terrible attitude, too.