{"id":147209,"date":"2015-11-24T08:14:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T06:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=147209"},"modified":"2015-11-24T08:16:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T06:16:06","slug":"axel-springer-sues-ad-blocking-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/147209-axel-springer-sues-ad-blocking-service.html","title":{"rendered":"Axel Springer sues ad blocking service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/11\/23\/axel-springer-goes-after-ios-9-ad-blockers-in-new-legal-battle\/?ncid=rss\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Techcrunch reported that<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0German media powerhouse Axel Springer has taken legal action against an iOS content blocker known as Blockr.<\/p>\n<p>This forms part of a campaign against ad blockers, which are threatening the business models of online publishers.<\/p>\n<p>Lampmann, Haberkamm &amp; Rosenbaum, the law firm which represents Blockr, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/magazin\/wettbewerbsrecht\/lg-stuttgart-contentblocker-blockr-rechtmaessig\" target=\"_blank\">said several German publishers<\/a><\/strong> have previously been unsuccessful in trying to convince German courts to outlaw AdBlock Plus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court was asked to forbid the Blockr developers to offer, advertise, and develop a software that suppresses ads on www.welt.de, including mobile versions of the website,\u201d the firm said.<\/p>\n<p>The software was said to be illegally obstructing digital content and therefore had to be banned.<\/p>\n<p>The court announced on 19 November that it did not see any legal grounds on which a preliminary injunction could be issued.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on ad blockers<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/143244-lets-fight-ad-blockers-google-executive.html\">Let\u2019s fight ad-blockers: Google executive<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/140516-adblock-plus-gets-special-independent-board.html\">AdBlock Plus gets special independent board<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/118031-how-websites-pay-to-get-past-your-adblock.html\">How websites pay to get past your adblock<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German media powerhouse Axel Springer has taken legal action against an iOS ad blocker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,34139,27469,34137,691],"class_list":["post-147209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-ad-blocking","tag-axel-springer","tag-blockr","tag-ios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147213,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147209\/revisions\/147213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}