Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
by c2h5oh on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @12:15PM
(#18610251)
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.
Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
by c2h5oh on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @12:38PM
(#18610479)
With this definition does you opinion change? I mean this user agent isn't a secret information - this provides weaker access control than not advertising a public URL.
> 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)