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[Clueless anti-s]ecurity quote of the week

[Clueless anti-s]ecurity quote of the week

Posted May 8, 2015 14:18 UTC (Fri) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)
In reply to: [Clueless anti-s]ecurity quote of the week by dlang
Parent article: Security quote of the week

> Even though IANAL, another thing that jumps out at me is that a content provider could go after them under several possible approaches [...]

None of them apply to the "tracking cookies" example.

> 3. copyright violation for producing a derivative work of the page. Implicit permission to copy the page as-is is obviously granted, but permission to make a modified version of the page????

That would also apply against page modifiers like ad blockers, user stylesheets/scripts, or mobile browsers which automatically reflow/resize the page elements to better fit the small screen.


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[Clueless anti-s]ecurity quote of the week

Posted May 8, 2015 17:57 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

> That would also apply against page modifiers like ad blockers, user stylesheets/scripts

I'm pretty sure it is a violation to redistribute the derivative work, not to make it in the first place (barring silly EULA terms).


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