Friday, October 9, 2009

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.

Because, the SkipScreen tool has only one purpose, to bypass legitimate Web pages of free file hosting sites, steal bandwidth from them, and take users directly to hidden download pages.

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