[dundee] NoScript users are violating the DCMA

[Axel]

Quoting Robert Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk>:

>> 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.

It's like the shiny iPhone philosophy: Don't run what could be  
possible, run what the allowed you!
:-)


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