Blogger Threatened For Publishing JS Hack

An anonymous reader writes "Internet radio station Atlanta Blue Skye LLC has warned a Romania-based technology enthusiast that his blog has been 'copied' and turned over to its lawyers. The issue stems from his posting of a widely known workaround for bypassing JavaScript functions that try to disable a mouse's right-click context menu functionality, and the radio stream information gathered from the Properties function of Windows Media Player."

Comments

Lets just hope that

[zappepcs]

the Atlanta Blue Skye LLC company are irreparably harmed financially when they are hit with the clue stick. There is NO way to suppress information on the Internet globally, and those who try to are more ignorant of the facts than should be believable.

Oh noes

[Dachannien]

Maybe they should turn this over to their intrepid band of lawyers.

I don't want to license my stuff from anyone.

[headkase]

My electricity, my computer, my browser, my choice. If I don't want my browser to disable the context menu then that's my decision. And some company disabling the browser's context menu without Law to back them up really pisses me off. In the IP gold rush the US initiated, people are trying to own every little facet of information that we used to just take for granted being free. Locking everything up may or may-not benefit the economy but it sure-as-hell prunes cultural-enjoyment (ie. a more limited musical taste due to finite resources to acquire content) and development (ie. remixes and interpretations) in the long-term.

Fuck them.

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know if there's anything more annoying then some shitty website that tries to block secondary mouse button clicks (maybe those shitty websites that use the word-highlighting advertising that pops up some fucking shit when your roll over the words). For all the cool stuff that JavaScript can enable, sometimes I think it might be worth it to get rid of it if we could wipe stupid fucking shit like this off the face of the planet.

Oh yea?

[Wonko the Sane]

I have a method for bypassing advertisements on all forms of television currently in existence:

When the commercials start: go to the bathroom, get a snack/drink, perform small errands, talk to other people in the room.

Be careful, not scrupulously watching every single advertisement makes you a criminal pirate thief.

Re:Sympathetic Defendant?

[KokorHekkus]

Word of advice to those who blog about corporate enterprises... if you get a notice from a company threatening suit for whatever you said, take it seriously and get some legal advice...

Yeah... like checking if the legal notice actually applies to your jurisdiction. EU laws don't apply to the US and US laws don't apply the the EU.

Re:They broke the law

[AlgorithMan]

They copied his blog? That's copyright infringement

yes, WE laugh about that joke, because its such a ridiculous idea
but if he did the same thing vice versa, he'd be facing another lawsuit...

Re:Sympathetic Defendant?

[QuoteMstr]

Rude assholes deserve protection of the law as much as anyone else.

Re:Sympathetic Defendant?

[A beautiful mind]

Repeat after me: Romania is not part of the USA. Defamation, jury and other shit like that doesn't apply.