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Pasting the entire contents of copyrighted material is illegal. The top article on HN right now is about plagiarism. What you've done here is literally a crime.
by chrisaycock 14y ago
Pasting the entire contents of copyrighted material is illegal. The top article on HN right now is about plagiarism. What you've done here is literally a crime. Please don't put Y Combinator in this kind of position.
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- kahseng 14y agoOops was just emulating what I saw before, this is better: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&gs_nf=1&cp=44&gs_id=3&xhr=t&q=Facebook+Alums+Push+Q%26A+Site+Quora+-+WSJ.com&pf=p&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&oq=Facebook+Alums+Push+Q%26A+Site+Quora+-+WSJ.com&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=5fcdc9aab960680&biw=2327&bih=1344 http://www.google.com/#hl=en&gs_nf=1&cp=44&gs_id...
- Drbble 14y agoWhat you say is literally not true, unless that bit of text was selling for $1000: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#506 http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#506 Further, YC is protected by DMCA safe harbor provisions.
- chrisaycock 14y agoSince no DVD sells for $1000, is it perfectly ok to copy it? Obviously, that's not case. The paragraph below the one you totally misinterpreted is the one you should be quoting: > by the distribution of a work being prepared for commercial distribution, by making it available on a computer network accessible to members of the public, if such person knew or should have known that the work was intended for commercial distribution. The Wall Street Journal has a pay wall and the parent posted the full contents of the article on this site. Regarding safe harbor, YC must comply with any take-down notice to be in the clear. The safe harbor does NOT mean that YC gets a Betamax-style free pass when users upload copyrighted material illegally.