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What's the policy here, given that this "page" is just a straight up copy-paste of a code comment written over a decade ago (originally on Google Code, then to
by TheRealPomax 6y ago
What's the policy here, given that this "page" is just a straight up copy-paste of a code comment written over a decade ago (originally on Google Code, then to BitBucket, now on Github) The only thing this site did was copy their code comment verbatim, and then present it wrapped it in a million ads...
(in effect: should this need [2009] added, given that this is just a repost that looks like it's just cashing in on other folk's content?)
- erikpukinskis 6y agoI guess they could change the link to https://github.com/gco/xee/blob/master/XeePhotoshopLoader.m#L108 https://github.com/gco/xee/blob/master/XeePhotoshopLoader.m#... and put the (2007). Although I'm somewhat inclined to give the Google juice to b3n.org since they went to the effort to dredge it up, and it appears to be a legitimate weblog. In the early days of the web this would've been a very normal use of a weblog and no one would have thought twice about it. I guess I would liken it to re-posting an image, except it's just copy/pasting the text. There is some degree of media creation in putting a frame around the specific block of text. Like a photograph. Screenshotting a block of text like this and putting it on Instagram would also be a normal thing to do. Although it would be shittier to disseminate because there could be no backlink.
- TheRealPomax 6y agoImagine it being a repost of an image, except now it has a million ads around it and it's clearly a "how can we get clicks to get dollars" =(