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Is this legal?

• brinox 7y ago
  I can only speak for Germany, where it's definitely not.
  • orangepanda 7y ago
    Can you cite a law? For future reference.
    • jotaen 7y ago
      E.g. §5 UWG [1], the law against unfair business practices (“unlauterer Wettbewerb”). See also [2]. [1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/uwg_2004/__5.html https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/uwg_2004/__5.html [2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlauterer_Wettbewerb https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlauterer_Wettbewerb
• smitty1e 7y ago
  How would you write a law to make it illegal? The better remedy is precisely what is occurring: someone calls the Emperor's bluff, and we all get on HN and engage in cheeky humor.
  • throwaway66920 7y ago
    False advertising?
    • smitty1e 7y ago
      How are you actually going to prove the state of a distributed system in an legally actionable way?
      • jrochkind1 7y ago
        In the OP case, the evidence is not a problem, right? There's nothing specially about "legally actionable", you just need to convince a judge or jury that it happened, as with any other fact. In this case, with the JS code cited.
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