Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking Arms Race

Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by derefr on Friday April 14, 2017 @05:11PM (#14117424)

You assume everyone who writes an ad-blocker lives in the US, or a in country the US has coerced into joining WIPO. If an ad-blocked is written by a Chinese citizen, hosted in a Russian data-center, and attached to an Iranian domain name, what precisely is the US government going to do?

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by johncolanduoni on Friday April 14, 2017 @09:51PM (#14118883)

Don't you remember when libdvdcss was so illegal you had to run a script (that Ubuntu shipped) to download it? The horror!

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by brianwawok on Friday April 14, 2017 @07:14PM (#14118141)

Probably drop a MOAB on the datacenter.

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by goodplay on Friday April 14, 2017 @11:28PM (#14119204)

That would work for a country that can't defend itself or retaliate. I'm not sure that applies to any of the three mentioned.

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by bigbugbag on Monday April 17, 2017 @08:32PM (#14135625)

Arbitrarily seize the domain name.

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