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Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons by Confusion on Sunday December 02, 2018 @03:43PM (#18584463)
The US of course. Look at the list of sites the plugin works for: none of them cares if you ignore their paywall. The likelihood that you would subscribe is negligible. It’s American readers they are after. And for them the jurisprudence is clear. No deliberate subversion of access controls allowed.
Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons by jobigoud on Monday December 03, 2018 @12:42AM (#18586597)
If that's the case Mozilla has no business banning the addon for everyone...
Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons by Confusion on Monday December 03, 2018 @04:36AM (#18587476)
Mozilla is subject to US law. Mozilla has no obligation to enable certain addons only for visitors from certain countries.