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This is absolutely horrible and shows complete lack of respect for copyright. It should be taken down immediately.
This isn't qualitatively different than readability or numerous other extensions. The only difference is he is doing it server side.
Ah, but from a legal perspective, this makes all the difference. It is, I'm sorry to say, copyright infringement and goes beyond what fair use permits.
Interesting idea, http://www.hntext.com/#543c2fd8ba03530200000008 has "broken" special characters though.
Aside from that, looks like an interesting service, though!
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This isn't qualitatively different than readability or numerous other extensions. The only difference is he is doing it server side.
> The only difference is he is doing it server side Ah, but from a legal perspective, this makes all the difference. It is, I'm sorry to say, copyright infringement and goes beyond what fair use permits.
I won't ever use it though. I have a bookmark for cleaning up pages.
My first thought was how these articles were in no way more readable than the originals. Does anyone prefer a multi-column layout?
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> The only difference is he is doing it server side Ah, but from a legal perspective, this makes all the difference. It is, I'm sorry to say, copyright infringement and goes beyond what fair use permits.
You're right, but I wonder where the line is drawn with things like online RSS readers. They're basically doing the same thing, but just behind a username/password.
For starters, I'd look at the Supreme Court's opinion in Grokster. Here it is in HN-suitable pseudocode. :)
IF $distributing_product_used_by_others_to_infringe == FALSE THEN
FIND_NO_LIABILITY ( "None found" )
ELSEIF $distributing_with_object_of_promoting_infringement == TRUE THEN
FIND_LIABILITY ( "You're inducing infringement ")
ELSE
IF $actual_knowledge_of_infringements == TRUE and $failed_to_block == TRUE THEN
FIND_LIABILITY ( "You're a contributory infringer ")
ELSE
IF $capable_of_substantial_noninfringing_uses == TRUE THEN
FIND_NO_LIABILITY ( "None found" )
ELSE
FIND_LIABILITY ( "You're a contributory infringer ")
END
END
END
UPDATE: A copyright lawyer friend points out via email that I neglected to include vicarious liability. I'll leave the above pseudocode as-is and note vicarious liability here as a bugfix/todo.
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This isn't qualitatively different than readability or numerous other extensions. The only difference is he is doing it server side.
> The only difference is he is doing it server side Ah, but from a legal perspective, this makes all the difference. It is, I'm sorry to say, copyright infringement and goes beyond what fair use permits.
The comment I was replying to wasn't arguing that it was illegal, but actually wrong and "lacking respect". I was just pointing out that he should have the same opinion towards things like readability.
Also I think readability did do it server side, and so do other things like RSS readers.
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> The only difference is he is doing it server side Ah, but from a legal perspective, this makes all the difference. It is, I'm sorry to say, copyright infringement and goes beyond what fair use permits.
Yes I understand that, I said it isn't qualitatively different. If the web page somehow distributed javascript that would do the same thing client side, the website would appear exactly the same, yet would be perfectly legal. The comment I was replying to wasn't arguing that it was illegal, but actually wrong and "lacking respect". I was just pointing out that he should have the same opinion towards things like reada…
