[agent327]

Next the police will be knocking on your door, just to make sure you are not skipping ads in the newspaper.

"M'am, that vase in front of your TV could be used to block ads. You are going to have to move that."

Anyway, I see a great future for adblockers that render the whole page in a back buffer, and then copy it to a front buffer where it is masked by a bitmap that just has black squares where the ads used to be. That doesn't "change the original, copyrighted document", so it should be fine. And I presume putting that vase in front of your screen is still acceptable, even in Germany.

If publishers want more control, they always have the option of downloading the entire page as a bitmap.

[visarga]

This law is based on the idea that a restaurant patron should be forced to eat everything on their plate, or else it is infringing on the IP of the cook. "Sir, we made the salad with onions and you skipped them, we need to forcefully shove them down your throat"