Ad blocking is under attack

Re:Ad blocking is under attack by hunter2_ on Friday August 11, 2017 @06:57PM (#14995062)

By itself, any software performs no functions. Software is just instructions, and a config file is, too, just instructions. Sure, a difference is whether it's instructions for hardware or instructions for other software, but that doesn't sound material to me. Especially when hardware can be emulated by software.

However, circumvention tools (software or otherwise) require suing, not merely issuing a takedown notice, as another commenter pointed out.

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Re:Ad blocking is under attack by KGIII on Friday August 11, 2017 @07:46PM (#14995356)

I'm not sure it meets the definition of a circumvention tool, which appears to be a reference to 'computer software.' As in, the legal definition for such. The courts use a specific definition, found by the entry in the above reply. The few cases I found made use of the specific terminology.

IANAL :-)

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