Comment

Comment by angst_ridden

There's a firm in Southern California that's suing restaurants / small theaters / community organizations / etc after bulk-scanning web sites for embedded video that lack links to caption files.

It's all ADA abuse, lawsuits in the $5k-$7k range. A huge percentage of those sued don't have the means to fight back, and settle.

The company that's suing people had some incompetent coder write their scanner, so it only parses the TRACK tag from a video container in certain circumstances. I was able to defend an organization by demonstrating this.

A vigorous countersuit is in the discussion stages.

Discussion

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton