Williams says v3.1 of Adblock Plus, which landed back in April, baked in "new and significant anti-circumvention measures" for the first time — and he lauds "early results", saying the addition resulted in 103 websites being "freed from reinjected ads".
Short of a "reasonable" nuclear strike on the rogue server farm, circumvention of these measures will be, at best, an inconvenience.
The Better Online Ticket Sales Act of 2016, or the BOTS Act, basically prohibits the circumvention of security measures and website policies governing how many tickets one can buy.
"When users violate these policies repeatedly, like our policies against hate speech and harassment or our terms prohibiting circumvention of our enforcement measures, we terminate their accounts".
The act prohibits the circumvention of technical protection measures that keep copyrighted works from being accessed or copied without authorization.
"When users violate these policies repeatedly, like our policies against hate speech and harassment or our terms prohibiting circumvention of our enforcement measures, we terminate their accounts," YouTube said in an email at the time.
"When users violate these policies repeatedly, like our policies against hate speech and harassment or our terms prohibiting circumvention of our enforcement measures, we terminate their accounts," the company said in an email.
YouTube did not immediately respond to VICE News request for comment, but in a statement to BuzzFeed News, the company said that when users repeatedly violate policies "like our policies against hate speech and harassment or our terms prohibiting circumvention of our enforcement measures, we terminate their accounts".
As a result, breaking CSS is no longer deemed circumvention of an "effective technological measure" simply because it's no longer effective.
Brown and Drake should bear blame for a glass-flinging, bottle-swinging free-for-all in a crowded club "in circumvention of the venue's extensive security measures", according to the lawsuit, filed by Entertainment Enterprises.
Hoping to step up its circumvention efforts, the Falun Gong last year organized extensive lobbying in Congress, which approved $15 million for circumvention services.
