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Why is it legal to post on HN links to stolen content?

• vb6sp6 7y ago
  1. there are no internet police 2. no theft has occurred
• crmrc114 7y ago
  Fair-Use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use This is disputed however, fun read here https://gould.usc.edu/why/students/orgs/ilj/assets/docs/25-3-Oberle.pdf https://gould.usc.edu/why/students/orgs/ilj/assets/docs/25-3...
• FriendlyNormie 7y ago
  Between this comment and your submission history consisting almost entirely of FT links, you really aren’t trying very hard to conceal the fact that you work for FT. Why are links with paywalls even allowed to be submitted to HN? I imagine if I submitted dozens of links to my personal website where the only viewable content was a bunch of donation links, my account would be banned.
  • crmrc114 7y ago
    Good Point, maybe we should just start flagging all posts that are pay-walled? Why feed traffic to a site and pay their advertisers when they don't want us.