Ask PG: What do you think about the curebit incident?

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Post by johnwall » Sat, Jan 28, 2012, 10:26 PM UTC

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Re: Ask PG: What do you think about the curebit incident?

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Post by fvryan » Sat, Jan 28, 2012, 10:49 PM UTC

A quick check of the HN guidelines would encourage you to email 'info@ycombinator.com'

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com."

Re: Ask PG: What do you think about the curebit incident?

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Post by pg » Sat, Jan 28, 2012, 10:50 PM UTC

I think they shouldn't have done it, and that they compounded the problem by not taking the initial complaints seriously enough.

I'm going to kill this now though.

Re: Ask PG: What do you think about the curebit incident?

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Post by dpkendal » Sat, Jan 28, 2012, 10:52 PM UTC

fvryan wrote: post #2

A quick check of the HN guidelines would encourage you to email 'info@ycombinator.com' http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com."

On the other hand, this is a very public issue, and (as of writing) at least 32 people want to know his opinion. So, by community decision, I'd say that this post is appropriate.

Re: Ask PG: What do you think about the curebit incident?

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 28, 2012, 10:55 PM UTC

fvryan wrote: post #2

A quick check of the HN guidelines would encourage you to email 'info@ycombinator.com' http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com."

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Re: Ask PG: What do you think about the curebit incident?

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Post by Sargis » Sat, Jan 28, 2012, 11:00 PM UTC

Don't you think this is akin to piracy? Why are people so outraged about someone using a simple HTML page (or parts of it) without permission when illegally obtaining and using content such as movies or music is a daily occurrence, but you don't see people making a big fuss about that.

I'm not saying what he did was right as it obviously isn't, but making such an outrage about this seems a little bit over the top, IMO.