To put an ad-blocker in an app, you have to reverse-engineer it. To do that, you'll have to decrypt and decompile it. That step is a felony under #Section1201 of the #DMCA, carrying a five-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine. Beyond that, ad-blocking an app would give rise to liability under the #ComputerFraudAndAbuseAct (a law inspired by the movie *Wargames*!), under "tortious interference" claims, under trademark, copyright and patent.

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“For the past many months & even years, Defendants have dedicated an extraordinary amount of time & energy toward looking for, #hacking into, #tampering with, #manipulating, copying, #disseminating, & generally obsessing over data that they were given that was taken or #stolen,” the #lawsuit charges. It alleges that the duo’s actions violated the federal #ComputerFraudAndAbuseAct.

#Giuliani #Costello #HunterBiden

#15yrsago Steven Brust’s unauthorized #Firefly# fanfic novel https://memex.craphound.com/2008/02/18/steven-brusts-unauthorized-firefly-fanfic-novel/

#10yrsago Understanding the #ComputerFraudAndAbuseAct: can you go to jail for violating a clickthrough agreement? https://web.archive.org/web/20130303184349/https://ilt.eff.org/index.php/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act_(CFAA)

#10yrsago Students get class-wide As by boycotting test, solving #PrisonersDilemma https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/12/students-boycott-final-challenge-professors-grading-policy-and-get

#5yrsago China’s Internet Czar has been purged https://qz.com/1206816/chinas-shameless-former-internet-czar-lu-wei-was-expelled-from-the-communist-party-and-investigated-for-corruption

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