Meet the Company Hijacking New York Times Ad Revenue

Re:Meet the Company Hijacking New York Times Ad Revenue by danso on Sunday October 21, 2012 @11:41AM (#4679902)

Well, the perceived moral right is sometimes what it takes for an individual entity to "get things done". I think it's safe to say that the NYT can't wait until users become tech savvy or for Google to come up with a good blacklist policy. So the NYT, if holding on to revenue is still a priority, will have to approach this problem as a self-interested, self-righteous party.

Frankly, the route you propose --criminal legislation -- would not be possible without overbearing laws on the order of SOPA. How would you envision a law that banned a plugin provider from injecting "bad" content into a consenting user's browser? Defining the "bad" is what gets us into trouble here

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Re:Meet the Company Hijacking New York Times Ad Revenue by anonymouz on Sunday October 21, 2012 @12:05PM (#4679957)

I don't think new laws are needed. If the malware poses as one thing and then does another this should (hopefully, IANAL) be covered by existing laws against cracking or computer fraud. I'm not proposing putting any Orwellian laws on the book, but simply see this as a case of the company abusing the users' computer systems and apply existing laws to it. To me this is entirely analogous to some bored "hacker" talking people into installing a trojan on their computer.

Since malice seems obvious and the operation is clearly a commercial one, I don't see how this being anywhere in a gray area.

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