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I don't think it's dubious at all. I think it's a clear abuse of copyright. My comments are my own. They are implicitly licensed to Y Combinator to store and di
by DanielStraight 16y ago
I don't think it's dubious at all. I think it's a clear abuse of copyright. My comments are my own. They are implicitly licensed to Y Combinator to store and display on Hacker News, but they are not licensed to anyone else.
The internet is not public domain. If you have not been explicitly granted permission, you don't have it. I have not, and will not, grant permission for my posts to be redistributed in a data dump.
- Tichy 16y agoThe thing is, anybody could just use a crawler and get the data directly from HN. Downloading the bittorrent is just a shortcut. Since you published your comments here, I think they are free for everyone to consume. Now to republish them somewhere else is a different matter. I guess publishing a torrent could be counted as republishing the data, but what would be the point in refusing it? The publisher is not making any money from it.