Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons

Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons by alpaca128 on Monday December 03, 2018 @02:30AM (#18586987)

> Checking user agent doesn't meet the requirement to be considered an effective access control technological measure.

I highly doubt that. Keep in mind that age restrictions which make you hit a single button to circumvent them are much worse in keeping the wrong users out, and afaik legally they're perfectly fine.

"Effective access control" means they have to do something which may work to some degree and doesn't have to be a burden financially or technically.

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Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons by c2h5oh on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @12:16PM (#18610270)

Ah, but in this case we're provided a definition: > a technological measure “effectively controls access to a work” if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.

17 U.S. Code § 1201 (a) (3) (B)

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Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons by cipherzero on Monday December 03, 2018 @04:39PM (#18593362)

Would you be making the same argument if we were talking about your bank's website?

IMO Effective access control works both ways. you can't send the ALL of the content back and then have the access control work on the client machine. What if i just used curl and viewed the HTML raw to read the article?

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