US blogger fined 8,000 Euros by France for criticizing Société Générale • Hacker News Board

Re: US blogger fined 8,000 Euros by France for criticizing Société Générale

#231

Post by thekevan » Tue, Nov 26, 2013, 5:41 PM UTC

Mithaldu wrote: post #170

thekevan wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you copied his content and were mad that he included text which noted you copied his content?

To be fair: I am less concerned about the adding of text, but the fact that it also adds a newline. I copied it with the intent of putting quotes around it and adding the link to the end of it. However as is, i had to copy it into an editor and mangle it there, before posting it in chat.

"his content" It's not yours. He can do what he wants with it. The newline was there in the code. His code.

Re: US blogger fined 8,000 Euros by France for criticizing Société Générale

#232

Post by thekevan » Tue, Nov 26, 2013, 5:42 PM UTC

PhasmaFelis wrote: post #160

thekevan wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you copied his content and were mad that he included text which noted you copied his content?

Designing your website to hijack basic system functions is bullshit, there are plenty of legitimate reasons to copy text from an article (quoting it for discussion on a Hacker News thread is the first one that comes to mind). Unfortunately, cramming spam into copied text seems to be getting more popular, and rudeness aside it's a potential security risk (i.e. if an unsuspecting help-seeker copy-pastes a command line…

It's his content. He can make as easy or difficult to copy as he wants. It isn't spam, it's attribution. Your self entitled comment really worries me.

Re: US blogger fined 8,000 Euros by France for criticizing Société Générale

#233

Post by Mithaldu » Wed, Nov 27, 2013, 9:39 AM UTC

thekevan wrote: post #231

Mithaldu wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair: I am less concerned about the adding of text, but the fact that it also adds a newline. I copied it with the intent of putting quotes around it and adding the link to the end of it. However as is, i had to copy it into an editor and mangle it there, before posting it in chat.

"his content" It's not yours. He can do what he wants with it. The newline was there in the code. His code.

Sure, he can do what he wants to do with it.

That doesn't mean that it isn't very disrespectful behavior to his audience. :)

Only because one can do something doesn't mean one should.