Legal action by publisher Axel Springer, which aims to outlaw ad blocking on copyright grounds, has been revived by Germany’s top court.
Case file: https://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bgh&Art=en&client=12&pos=0&anz=1&Blank=1.pdf&nr=142511 (German)
To clarify the title: The court overturned past decision that said ad blocking is not piracy and retured the question back to the same lower court to re-consider it on the new grounds from this ruling.
World is fucked.
It’s my computer.
Fuck you.
In their opening statements, the lawyers defending ad blocking should begin by spend endless minutes doing nothing but reading verbals ads into the record on the courts time. If the judge asks them to stop reading the ads, the lawyer should then ask if the case is now concluded in the favor of ad blocking as ad blocking should be allowed to consume the relevant content instead of being forced to listen to ads or if the judge is saying that all parties must be forced to consume an unlimited amount of ads lest they face the force of law by blocking/skipping the ads.
The judge would absolutely reject that argument but I’m in favor entirely because it’s funny AF.
Seriously -_-
‘It interferes with our business model!’ Good, fail. Kill the entire industry.
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