Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal
drmoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoand if the ad blocker modified the byte code (either directly or by modifying the source), then that would constitute a modification of code and hence run afoul of copyright protections as derivative work.
Insanity - modifying code that runs on your machine in no way is even remotely related to copyright.
Jarix@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Cracking code/verification systems on your computer is also code running on your system, there are literally people in prison for running the code that cracks a program, BECAUSE of copyright laws.
So I’m not sure your setting how bad it already is for users.
(What should be, is not what we are talking about, for the record)