{"id":1192,"date":"2007-09-17T23:47:58","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T16:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2007-09-17T23:49:13","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T16:49:13","slug":"httpwwwnewscomwebadblockingmaynotbeentirelylegal2100-1030_3-6207936htmltagtxtalerthed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/httpwwwnewscomwebadblockingmaynotbeentirelylegal2100-1030_3-6207936htmltagtxtalerthed\/","title":{"rendered":"Web ad blocking may not be (entirely) legal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advertising-supported companies have long turned to the courts to squelch products that let consumers block or skip ads: it happened in the famous lawsuit against the VCR in 1979 and again with ReplayTV in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s legal fight may be over Web browser add-ons that let people avoid advertisements. These add-ons are growing in functionality and popularity, which has led legal experts surveyed this week by CNET News.com to speculate about when the first lawsuit will be filed.<\/p>\n<p>If ad-blockers become so common that they slice away at publishers&#8217; revenues, &#8220;I absolutely would expect to see litigation in this area,&#8221; said John Palfrey, executive director of Harvard Law School&#8217;s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/Web+ad+blocking+may+not+be+entirely+legal\/2100-1030_3-6207936.html?tag=txt.alert.hed\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advertising-supported companies have long turned to the courts to squelch products that let consumers block or skip ads: it happened in the famous lawsuit against the VCR in 1979 and again with ReplayTV in 2001. Tomorrow&#8217;s legal fight may be over Web browser add-ons that let people avoid advertisements. These add-ons are growing in functionality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-government","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}