Comment by eli
12 days ago
This is bad advice. Obfuscated JS qualifies.
1201(a)(3): "As used in this subsection-- to 'circumvent a technological measure' means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner"
Obfuscated JS can be re-hosted as is, and you can probably remove the ads with newly added JS code.
Or just visit the real site and use an ad blocker? Re-hosting it would obviously be copyright infringement.
Ad-blocking breaks the original site. A lot of functionality stops working properly.
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The problem is that AI can probably rewrite this JS de novo simply by observing its behavior and without de-obfuscating it.
Or just ask first AI to create specs and another AI to do clean room implementation?
This would be legal, by the way.
I think you would just end up with yet another slopcoded photoshop clone
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are they tools to deobfuscate (covered) or just deobfuscated copies (not covered)?