@verita84 > Finally, the lawsuit said Brave violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by circumventing technological measures the NYT and other content owners use to restrict access to their articles. > “The Brave Browser includes a default setting that, when activated, causes the browser to go behind website paywalls and provide the paywalled content to the user,” the lawsuit said. The browser “blocks advertising that would otherwise appear on The Times’s website So the argument is that blocking arbitrary HTML elements is a violation of the DMCA's anti-circumvention section, I guess. Specifically, blocking those "Sign Up to read more" overlay-popups. Incredibly faggy argument, which would have some serious consequences if they won their case based on that.