Why no "Banner Ad Eaters"?

[Ray Arachelian]

On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, Tim May wrote:

> BTW, some of the notorious features of the new "anti-hacking" laws make
> disassembly of programs, like browsers, illegal. While they won't bother
> with folks who just fool around with disassembling code, they might use
> these anti-hacking laws to throw the book at anyone who made such a
> banner-eater available.

Fuck that, Netscape is soon to be GPL'd.

> After all, directly infringing on the rights of advertisers to beam their
> shit into our eyeballs is America's most serious crime.

Probably considered more serious than murder by them.

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