Firefox Automation Plug-In Draws Legal Threat

**MIG-31** · Oct 9, 2009, 07:31 AM

MediaFire, a free file hosting service, last week demanded that Mozilla stop distributing the Firefox plug-in SkipScreen, which automates interaction with sites like MediaFire to allow users to bypass forced waiting periods used to display ads and limit bandwidth bills.
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Source: Information Week

BlueMak · Oct 9, 2009, 11:12 AM

I hate waiting periods, but I agree with them.

charm_quark · Oct 9, 2009, 05:22 PM

i download a lot, but didnt know of such thing, thanks for telling us

[hobo]eclipse · Oct 9, 2009, 06:55 PM

it doesnt work on all the big sites, but the ones it does work with it works well

Rayder · Oct 9, 2009, 07:28 PM

OOH! New plugin to use, thanks for the heads-up!

Oct 9, 2009, 07:31 AM	#1
MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 56,854 Rep Power: 471 System Specs	Firefox Automation Plug-In Draws Legal Threat MediaFire, a free file hosting service, last week demanded that Mozilla stop distributing the Firefox plug-in SkipScreen, which automates interaction with sites like MediaFire to allow users to bypass forced waiting periods used to display ads and limit bandwidth bills. _____________ Source: Information Week __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here

Oct 9, 2009, 11:12 AM	#2
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,481 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	Re: Firefox Automation Plug-In Draws Legal Threat I hate waiting periods, but I agree with them. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Oct 9, 2009, 05:22 PM	#3
charm_quark incognito Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: BoTsWaNa Posts: 2,437 Rep Power: 140	Re: Firefox Automation Plug-In Draws Legal Threat i download a lot, but didnt know of such thing, thanks for telling us __________________ Three quarks for Muster Mark! Sure he has not got much of a bark And sure any he has it's all beside the mark. —James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

Oct 9, 2009, 06:55 PM	#4
[hobo]eclipse ...just bummin 'round Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,907 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	Re: Firefox Automation Plug-In Draws Legal Threat it doesnt work on all the big sites, but the ones it does work with it works well

Oct 9, 2009, 07:28 PM	#5
Rayder Mostly lurking lately.... Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 2,161 Rep Power: 73	Re: Firefox Automation Plug-In Draws Legal Threat OOH! New plugin to use, thanks for the heads-up!