Mark Nottingham wrote:
These are the most common potentially damaging uses of ICAP, either
currently in use or discussed:
Insert ads.
Insert a 'console' to 'brand' the browsing session.
Rewrite links.
[...]
Of course publishers can protect against these things; they can run all
of their content over SSL/TLS, watermark everything, etc.
Or they can file suit for copyright violation: I put up my documents to be
distributed to end users; there may be an implicit license to redistribute
them from a caching proxy, but that does not include a license to
redistribute *modified* versions.
(In the US, an ISP who does ad insertion may even be committing criminal
copyright violation, since they're profiting from the violation.)
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