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I am thinking from a piracy perspective. If I share a link that contains a book, what can be done from DCMA or legal regulators? They can't ask the server (textarea.my) to remove the link because it doesn't exist. They can't track every website with the link and ask to be removed, either. Could they ask textarea.my to not parse the link and thus, not display the content? Could textarea.my refuse?
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Chrome limit is 2MB, Firefox is 1MB, WebKit is no limit. Here is the Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky: - https://medv.io/goto/crime-and-punishment-by-fyodor-dostoevs...
Incredible. My absolute favorite thing about modernity is how enabled we are to riff on a riff of a riff. In 1346, if a blacksmith came up with something cool, its quite possible that it died with them.
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> Vibe engineered While I'm all for vibe coding as appropriate, there's a lot of humor to be found it calling it engineering. :D
this is not something I came up with, Simon wrote it and I liked the differentiation between "vibe coding" where there is less effort for this case project I think I would actually go back and say it's vibe coded, but I didn't want to just call it vibe coding because I did spend time going back and forth and directing the agent https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/vibe-engineering/
I am thinking from a piracy perspective. If I share a link that contains a book, what can be done from DCMA or legal regulators? They can't ask the server (textarea.my) to remove the link because it doesn't exist. They can't track every website with the link and ask to be removed, either. Could they ask textarea.my to not parse the link and thus, not display the content? Could textarea.my refuse?
A book won't fit in the URL anyway even with compression
I am thinking from a piracy perspective. If I share a link that contains a book, what can be done from DCMA or legal regulators? They can't ask the server (textarea.my) to remove the link because it doesn't exist. They can't track every website with the link and ask to be removed, either. Could they ask textarea.my to not parse the link and thus, not display the content? Could textarea.my refuse?
I would hope not. The copyrighted content seems to be the link rather than anything in the app. Your example sounds like stopping notepad from rendering copyrighted content
From a regulatory perspective, it seems unlikely that most courts would appreciate the difference. In their mind - you run a website, and that website contains copyrighted content. Take it down.
You'd probably have to just blacklist the link in question to avoid a legal headache.
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> Vibe engineered While I'm all for vibe coding as appropriate, there's a lot of humor to be found it calling it engineering. :D
this is not something I came up with, Simon wrote it and I liked the differentiation between "vibe coding" where there is less effort for this case project I think I would actually go back and say it's vibe coded, but I didn't want to just call it vibe coding because I did spend time going back and forth and directing the agent https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/vibe-engineering/
Cool project, but loading "Crime and Punishment" crashed my mobile browser. I don't think urls were built for that kind of punishment.
Funny how I made almost exactly the same but for maps. I needed a way to share a link to a map, with drawings and the ability for the receiver to see their own location on the map. Annotated screenshots solves the first but not the second. Vibe engineered this, with many of the same ideas as OP. Took an evening. Just in time apps for one specific use case is a thing. And because it's so cheap to make and can be hoste…