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Inconvenience is often good enough. This isn't intended for state secrets, based on the language it's intended for "creators" to "protect the content they publi

Inconvenience is often good enough. This isn't intended for state secrets, based on the language it's intended for "creators" to "protect the content they publish on Telegram". Obviously any platform can't completely prevent copying works, that's how piracy exists, and always will. If I were an artist I would prefer a platform that at least made it slightly more onerous to copy my things with high quality. A photo of a phone is worth effectively nothing in this context. This seems like a fine change, people on HN just like to be angry.

nixpulvis 5y ago
"Inconvenience as a feature" perfectly sums up the state of the tech world right now.
- afiori 5y ago
  inconvenience for abusers is a great feature indeed
  - nixpulvis 5y ago
    Use is abuse now? Actually, I almost agree with that!
    - afiori 5y ago
      To ab-use something you genereally need to be using that thing. It is impossible to prevent abuse, but it is necessary to contain it.
GeckoEidechse 5y ago
The issue though is that this will give the sender of a message the impression that what they are sharing will stay private, even though there are from a technical standpoint no such guarantees.
- jacobmischka 5y ago
  People aren't as stupid as you may think.
- afiori 5y ago
  this is the definition of moving the goalpost (I know you are not GP)