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I've been on the other side of the hivemind many times here and on reddit, and I can assure you, I encourage opinions that I may even disagree with or doubt. The last people I woul…

I'm really surprised Russia Today links are even allowed here.

The best evidence of the usefulness of PG's post are replies like yours which (hilariously) cannot refute his points. Too many people are blindly devoted to the idea of copyright. …

Yes, the restrictions of the GPL would be moot if there were no copyright. Treating source code as intellectual property is exactly what spawned GPL in the first place, as it is a …

I'm only aware of laws that dictate the effort put into obtaining private information, not the knowledge or dissemination of it. I can't steal your phone and grab the picture, but …

> You could always give performances and charge for those! So, software as a service? It appears we've been heading that way for a while. > Joking aside, I think that IP is and sho…

It would appear there's more to the story than I was aware. Certainly administrative subpoenas that are not based on a grand jury hearing would be susceptible to appeal?

> It requires a provider to turn over to the government without a warrant: It does not require that a provider turn that over to the government without a warrant. It mandates that …

Where's the reasoning for this? Frequently starting over is a problem, but code refactoring can have immense benefits. Discovering a different framework or language may suit your w…

> I've also heard that this law requires ISPs to turn this information over without a warrant. Is this not correct? That isn't correct, you could go and read the bill if you want: …

> The economic benefit they provide to content creators is the financing to be able to create the content in the first place Music, video games, application/software development ar…

Long read but good work. I think this is more of an open letter to content publishers; content creators haven't had any trouble solving the problems that you explained. Content has…

I highly doubt he was being serious when he was "fear mongering". In context it was likely him using the TSA's logic against the scanners. Remember, this guy has been fighting long…

It sounds like Linode's user system is different from their server management system. They probably have some administration tools for resetting VPS passwords, but don't have acces…

> if linode was compromised either the whole infrastructure was compromised (unlikely) That's funny. I know from experience in the script kiddie part of the Internet that it was so…

It's important to note that, at least in the U.S., the Supreme Court ruled in Reno v. ACLU that blanket censorship of online content simply because they can be illegal is unconstit…

Kademlia did get traction; it is the protocol for BitTorrent's use of magnet links, trackerless torrents and other features. It was not designed to act as a gossip-like overlay net…

> I think that companies can release source to licensees only and I would like to see that practice enter general use. Companies already license out their source code to whoever th…

I'm trying to wrap my head around this comment. You're saying that GPL isn't restrictive enough to provide the security for businesses to open-source their work? GPL is very restri…

XHR is awful for large file uploads. It doesn't support sending the file object (which presumably would be processed according to RFC1867) on Firefox, but it does support that on C…

I actually don't care that they copied the design, but that YC actually funded people who thought that was a professional thing to do.

I love this post and agree with most of it, but I'd like to point something out. > But once they do anything with enough financial scale to merit incorporation, they need to submit…

I'm a completely anti-copyright, pro-piracy, pro-megaupload person, but there was due process and complete legitimacy with them taking down megaupload. Perhaps megaupload are not g…

I think it would be best to compose a short video that outlines all of the problems, as that's even more accessible to people. I've seen a few videos that are long, and a few video…