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Serves as a deterrent effect. If there were no enforcement ever, lots of people from sites like HN would be thinking of fun, clever new ways to post/share stuf
by jdminhbg 16y ago
Serves as a deterrent effect. If there were no enforcement ever, lots of people from sites like HN would be thinking of fun, clever new ways to post/share stuff. Since there is, only a smaller segment of the hacker population is willing to put up with the legal hassle.
- swolchok 16y agoThing is, there's nothing wrong with thinking of fun, clever ways to post/share stuff. If nothing else, you can do it to anticipate what the bad guys might do, on the same principle as any other kind of attack research.
- Ygor 16y agoOn the other hand, it also adds to the publicity, doesn't it? They probably assume the deterrent effect has a greater impact than all the press and the buzz about banning and shuting down?