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I know you shouldn’t comment about votes, but why downvotes? You might be against copyright in certain cases but technically, if not legally, the point holds.
by pb060 3y ago
I know you shouldn’t comment about votes, but why downvotes? You might be against copyright in certain cases but technically, if not legally, the point holds.
- chernevik 3y agoBecause downvotes are heavily used to say "I don't like this" rather than "this is not relevant". I've complained to HN about this and proposed solutions. They don't care.
- layer8 3y agoThe comment seems to assume that most everyone would agree that such sharing of the link should not be taking place due to copyright reasons. That is an absurd assumption to make, to everyone who has been around the internet for a bit. It would be different if the commenter would be trying to make an actual, intelligently argued case why the link shouldn’t be shared in this instance. That being said, one could instead link to https://web.archive.org/web/20080718084442/http://lucis.net/stuff/clarke/star_clarke.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080718084442/http://lucis.net/..., where the story is “reprinted by permisssion”.