Germany's Federal Court of Justice revived Axel Springer's lawsuit against Adblock Plus maker Eyeo, ruling that ad-blockers may infringe copyright by altering website code. The case returns to Hamburg for reevaluation. This decision could disrupt global ad tech, user privacy, and online publishing models.
I foresee a future where a suit like this holds any ground, and we end up with a DRM’d web and a non-DRM web, and all the blogs and news sites go to the DRM’d portion because they’re guaranteed that their ads will show. oh god we’re going back to Tor.