Totally disagree. The bad faith argumentation is apparent in the thread, and it's worth pointing out because that is actually what this is all about. 1) It's

Totally disagree. The bad faith argumentation is apparent in the thread, and it's worth pointing out because that is actually what this is all about. 1) It's a stretch to conclude a cop playing music on a radio is a 'public performance' - and yet the commentary here jumps immediately to that conclusion. 2) Someone making a production of some activity in public, and then uploading said production, may very well be in violation of copyright if that production contains copyrighted material. But nobody at all seems interested in commenting on the potential culpability of the person making the recording. This is typical of the few specific HN issues where the community is triggered, where they plainly lack the ability to be dispassionate, and lack self awareness. It's shameful really. There are other 'controversial' issues, but they tend to be 'sided' in that, there's a lot of more extreme discussion going on either side. HN is rabid about copyright and 'information libertarianism' and what they perceive to be arbitrary authoritarianism (even though policing is not that) - and this issue has both: police, and copyright, so it's an ugly mess of sided reasoning.