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Either lots of people are crossposting their comments to your site, or you're doing it for them. If it's the latter, that's a pretty wholesale copyright infring
by bencollier49 7y ago
Either lots of people are crossposting their comments to your site, or you're doing it for them. If it's the latter, that's a pretty wholesale copyright infringement job, isn't it? As I understand it, YCombinator is granted a license for the comments by the EULA on the site, but that doesn't extend to scrapers..?
[I should add, it's probably also a GDPR violation. The GDPR has some excitingly large fines for data misuse! :-)]
- OrangeManBad 7y agoI would love if YC at least had an easy way to delete comments.
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- jeho 7y agoIt’s pulling from the HN API
- bencollier49 7y agoInteresting legal question about the API then, I guess.