Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal
Filetternavn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day agoNo, copyright holders have the right to provide permission for modification and distribution of their copyrighted material. This is a case where the copyright holder is not explicitly providing those rights, so it is a completely different scenario.
Natanael@infosec.pub 23 hours ago
But ad blockers don’t distribute derivative materials.
It’s like saying you can’t distribute a stencil to cover up things you don’t like to see in a book.
Filetternavn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
Correct, this case (as far as I’m aware) is only about modification. I simply mentioned distribution and derivative works to talk about libre licenses like GPL being different than what the court case is about