[dundee] NoScript users are violating the DCMA

Robert Ladyman it at file-away.co.uk
Fri Mar 25 08:59:14 UTC 2011


> Awesome.
> 
> The NYT has implemented a "paywall" to ensure that the user have to
> pay for the content.
> 
> Outsourcing is best practise in business, and so they let run the
> "paywall" in the browser and not on there own server. This awesome
> guys have implemented their user authentication system in JavaScript.
> To bypass the paywall, just use NoScript or deactivate JavaScript.
> 
> The best experts ever :-)
> 
> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110322/03485913583/am-i-violating-dmca-v
> isiting-nytimes-with-noscript-enabled.shtml
> 
> Axel
> 

Tee hee - I'd find it hard to violate the DMCA anyway but it appears to me 
that if the code is on your machine, you have the right to decide to run it 
(Javascript) or not.

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