>I missed that. What's the HN URL? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14639451 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14639451 ; looks like the linked site has

>I missed that. What's the HN URL? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14639451 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14639451 ; looks like the linked site has come back online (for now). >There are ways to avoid such oversight. Consider, for example, Sci-Hub or TPB or third-generation dark markets. What's hard is doing that at scale. And that, I believe, is a huge niche that's aching to be filled. The TPB saga should scare all of us, because it shows how far corporate interests will go to remove a thorn in their side. TPB lives on because the swarm refuses to let it die, but its founders were rewarded with a witch hunt led by the top brass in the United States, exile, and imprisonment. Anyone who wants to take this on: do not expect a more favorable outcome than TPB's founders got, especially if you live in the U.S., where they won't have to threaten sanctions against your homeland to get you brought down.