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Is HN now illegal then?
by crispyporkbites 9y ago
Is HN now illegal then?
- LeonM 9y agoI think this is a really good question. How is this any different than posting a piratebay URL for a pirated movie on HN?
- GunlogAlm 9y agoIt's not different. As in: both are fine. It's not a crime to link to a site that links to content; TPB itself hosts no content. Linking is not a crime. https://thepiratebay.org https://thepiratebay.org
- crispyporkbites 9y agoThen why is thepiratebay blocked at the ISP DNS level by a court order in the UK?
- iggg 9y agoSame reason such thing as a TV license exists.
- TeMPOraL 9y ago> How is this any different than posting a piratebay URL for a pirated movie on HN? It's a link to a site that links to the front page of SciHub, not a particular paper accessed through it.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoWhat would a magnet link be considered?
- TeMPOraL 9y agoA link directly to content, I presume.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoOne of my projects is to serve torrent magnet links as DNS TXT records. Will be interesting to find out what happens.
- piracykills 9y agoThere's a difference between the page for a pirated movie and the front page of TPB. Where things really get interesting is info hashes. I could right now post a 160 bit SHA1 hash of any content on the bittorrent DHT and you could obtain it simply by tacking "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:" on the front. So perhaps simply sharing the hash of pirated content with some sort of encouragement could be enough to land you in hot water.
- CodeArtisan 9y agoIf a DMCA takedown notice is sent to which HN is not complying, then yes.
- eli 9y agoIgnoring a DMCA takedown isn't illegal, you just potentially lose the "Safe Harbor" protection if someone does decide to sue you.