Bypass Paywalls Clean Shut Down For DMCA Anti-Circumvention Violations * TorrentFreak
Bypass Paywalls Clean Shut Down For DMCA Anti-Circumvention Violations * TorrentFreak
Bypass Paywalls Clean, a popular browser extension that does exactly what its name suggests, has been shut down along with 3,879 forks.
Why doesn't BPC just split the functionality of the extension, so that the filter list is a separate entity?
If only they applied the same rigor to big tech scraping the same content into large language models. I guess the bypass paywall team wasn't big enough to afford the legion of lawyers that Sam Altman and co can summon on demand. We can just wait for chatgpt to serve those articles direct to our search results and nobody will even visit their website, because we live in a world where stealing an article to read is illegal, while stealing all of them for profit is not.
This is actually a pretty bad ruling IG you think about it. What does that make the internet archive?
If they don't want people to bypass the paywall they should require authentication