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While I sympathize with the author and wish her the best, I don't really see how this article belongs on HN.

voidlogic 14y ago
Intellectual property rights and freedoms are important issues to people here.
lancefisher 14y ago
Many people here are concerned about copyright related issues. Especially when a large corporation that regularly asserts copyright claims is caught doing the infringement. I'm glad this story ended up here, and I hope the press causes royalties to be paid to the original artist for the bag which is a direct copy.
thinker 14y ago
There's quite a lot of discussion on copyright issues around here so its somewhat appropriate, even if this is about art vs digital content.
- mieubrisse 14y ago
  That's a valid point.
enraged_camel 14y ago
The 'flag' function exists for a reason.
- dangrossman 14y ago
  If you flag articles like this, you'll soon lose the flagging privilege on your account. Submissions which aren't spammy/low quality, but which you simply aren't interested in, are supposed to be ignored, not flagged.
- mieubrisse 14y ago
  I was under the impression that the 'flag' feature is for content that is grossly inappropriate (e.g. a Reddit-esque asinine post), not for posts whose content I believe doesn't fit?
  - DanBC 14y ago
    From the Guidelines: > Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.
  - jasonlotito 14y ago
    That is correct. By that extension, if you are not interested in the content, ignore it. What's actually worse is posting a comment that merely complains about this not being content you think is appropriate.
markdown 14y ago
Goodness me, there's someone like you in every thread.
- mieubrisse 14y ago
  Given the entirely non-technical nature of the post, it's not an unfair criticism to make. As others have pointed out, there is indeed a group on HN interested in IP (which I don't personally identify with) but who find stuff like this interesting even if it's not technical - I see that now, and that's merely our difference in opinion about what's relevant here. But I'd recommend caution in criticizing that trope just for the sake of it: you're dissuading expression of possibly valid opinions on culture fitness, and those discussions are crucial for maintaining a culture anywhere.
  - scott_s 14y ago
    The guidelines ask posters not to do this: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    - mieubrisse 14y ago
      You're completely right. I had forgotten this was expressly prohibited.
mieubrisse 14y ago
As a follow-up since it's too late to edit the original: I had forgotten this was expressly prohibited by the guidelines; my apologies.

Intellectual property rights and freedoms are important issues to people here.

Many people here are concerned about copyright related issues. Especially when a large corporation that regularly asserts copyright claims is caught doing the infringement. I'm glad this story ended up here, and I hope the press causes royalties to be paid to the original artist for the bag which is a direct copy.

thinker 14y ago

There's quite a lot of discussion on copyright issues around here so its somewhat appropriate, even if this is about art vs digital content.

mieubrisse 14y ago
That's a valid point.

enraged_camel 14y ago

The 'flag' function exists for a reason.

dangrossman 14y ago
If you flag articles like this, you'll soon lose the flagging privilege on your account. Submissions which aren't spammy/low quality, but which you simply aren't interested in, are supposed to be ignored, not flagged.
mieubrisse 14y ago
I was under the impression that the 'flag' feature is for content that is grossly inappropriate (e.g. a Reddit-esque asinine post), not for posts whose content I believe doesn't fit?
- DanBC 14y ago
  From the Guidelines: > Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.
- jasonlotito 14y ago
  That is correct. By that extension, if you are not interested in the content, ignore it. What's actually worse is posting a comment that merely complains about this not being content you think is appropriate.

markdown 14y ago

Goodness me, there's someone like you in every thread.

mieubrisse 14y ago
Given the entirely non-technical nature of the post, it's not an unfair criticism to make. As others have pointed out, there is indeed a group on HN interested in IP (which I don't personally identify with) but who find stuff like this interesting even if it's not technical - I see that now, and that's merely our difference in opinion about what's relevant here. But I'd recommend caution in criticizing that trope just for the sake of it: you're dissuading expression of possibly valid opinions on culture fitness, and those discussions are crucial for maintaining a culture anywhere.
- scott_s 14y ago
  The guidelines ask posters not to do this: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - mieubrisse 14y ago
    You're completely right. I had forgotten this was expressly prohibited.

mieubrisse 14y ago

As a follow-up since it's too late to edit the original: I had forgotten this was expressly prohibited by the guidelines; my apologies.