<story><title>Eyeo wins German copyright decision, sets legal precedent for who ‘owns’ HTML</title><url>https://eyeo.com/eyeo-wins-copyright-court-case/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blibble</author><text>&amp;gt; developer of best-in-class ad-filtering technology found in millions of browsers and products around the world&lt;p&gt;I must admit, this is pretty funny... there is &amp;quot;ublock&amp;quot; which users are tricked into installing (instead of the real ublock origin), which uses their &amp;quot;acceptable ads&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;and people have said that their business model is based on extorting ad companies to pay them to not block their ads</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>happybuy</author><text>Yes, Eyeo is a dodgy company that misrepresents their product and how they actually really make money from users &amp;amp; advertisers.&lt;p&gt;As one of the largest ad blockers around they also try and extinguish any potential competition before it has a chance to establish itself.&lt;p&gt;When I initially released my ad blocker for the iPhone and Mac – Magic Lasso Adblock (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.magiclasso.co&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.magiclasso.co&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;) they attempted to stop its distribution through the Apple App Stores.&lt;p&gt;They sent legal threats directly to myself and then to Apple claiming that they own the term &amp;#x27;adblock&amp;#x27; and demanded that my product stop using that term in any marketing or App Store keywords. This went on for months with them constantly pushing less and less plausible evidence for their ownership of the term.&lt;p&gt;I eventually told their enforcement loonies to stop contacting me and provided evidence to Apple that their claims are baseless (which meant their claims directly to Apple could also be ignored). They eventually stopped but I can see how their tactics could discourage any new entrants in the space.</text></comment>
<story><title>Eyeo wins German copyright decision, sets legal precedent for who ‘owns’ HTML</title><url>https://eyeo.com/eyeo-wins-copyright-court-case/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blibble</author><text>&amp;gt; developer of best-in-class ad-filtering technology found in millions of browsers and products around the world&lt;p&gt;I must admit, this is pretty funny... there is &amp;quot;ublock&amp;quot; which users are tricked into installing (instead of the real ublock origin), which uses their &amp;quot;acceptable ads&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;and people have said that their business model is based on extorting ad companies to pay them to not block their ads</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>josephcsible</author><text>Is &amp;quot;acceptable ads&amp;quot; really a bad thing? I&amp;#x27;m not opposed to seeing any ads; I just don&amp;#x27;t want badly behaved ones. And is there a less bad alternative to accomplish that?</text></comment>