21 May 2007
Blogger Threatened For Publishing JS Hack

So I suppose that turning off Javascript in Firefox could be construed as a "circumvention" under the DMCA. Idiots.

Internet radio station Atlanta Blue Skye LLC has warned a Romania-based technology enthusiast that his blog has been 'copied' and turned over to its lawyers. The issue stems from his posting of a widely known workaround for bypassing JavaScript functions that try to disable a mouse's right-click context menu functionality, and the radio stream information gathered from the Properties function of Windows Media Player.

(link) [Slashdot]

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