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I am curious as how these sort of guides are taken as incouous fun reads while a guide to, say, shoplifting would seem less than legitimate.
by mola 9y ago
I am curious as how these sort of guides are taken as incouous fun reads while a guide to, say, shoplifting would seem less than legitimate.
- corybrown 9y agoBecause, unlike a news article, the marginal cost of the shoplifted good is nowhere near zero.
- amelius 9y agoAnd how about a guide to illegally copy Spotify tracks without an account?
- clarkenheim 9y agolink?
- amelius 9y agoJust hypothetical. I'm curious about the perceived value of music versus news articles.
- linkregister 9y agoI wouldn't be surprised if a shoplifting guide made it to the front page of HN. I mean, how many HNers have read the MIT lockpicking guide or the Anarchist's Cookbook? At least half?
- andrewla 9y agoI think a better analogy is sneaking into a movie theater, for which there are a large number of "innocuous fun" articles out there [1] (although not featured on HN so much) [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+sneak+into+a+movie+theater https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+sneak+into+a+movie+th...
- rdiddly 9y agoBut this is about an arbitrary distinction between two groups of non-paying customers! However I dispute the "customer" analogy too. In fact, turning this tired and one-sided analogy of a "store" on its head, how about it's my browser, and while they're in it, they can play by my rules? There is nothing about a client-server paradigm (especially nowadays with thick clients) causing me to be "in their premises" or causing that to be a better analogy than their being in my premises[1]. The "online store" was just an analogy, and was how the www was sold to millions of profiteering dullards starting in the 90s, so naturally the idea has gotten a lot of traction and you can be forgiven for still thinking of it that way. [1]Neither is accurate of course - The truth of the matter is that my robot handshakes with their robot across space. (And then their robot asks the Twitter robot whether my robot has the special Twitter street cred badge.)