There’s a substantial ongoing debate about how much responsibility a platform as for what users do on that platform. Nearly everyone in tech is affected by that.
The theatrics and drama of it is a silly distraction, but the fundamental questions seem worth following and discussing.
Interesting. I thought the appeal of piracy-related stories on HN was that there's a lot of piracy going on, as private individuals.
And also because some subset of those consider piracy a hobby, mission, or right, not only a pragmatic way to get the content they want.
But I guess some people could be interested in the platform responsibility angle.
However, when discussing obviously entirely piracy platforms, isn't the interest and dialogue different, than it is for general-purpose platforms with only a fraction of the user contributions being problematic, and good-faith efforts to mitigate those?
I bet that too is a ton of what drives interest, the platform angle was just the primary thing that came to mind now that that’s more the world I think about
The piracy discussion is also hugely fascinating; I’m sure a good portion of HN remember Napster and friends, and the endless discussions had about that. We don’t seem to talk about it a lot.
yeah I guess you just need to fund political campaigns for democrats to be in the good part of "the platform is responsible for what users do on here". seeing what Google and FB got away with its pretty obvious that USA is bending the law to remove political oponnents here with KDotCom and soon with Musk
The theatrics and drama of it is a silly distraction, but the fundamental questions seem worth following and discussing.
I’m not German; what an odd thing to comment.