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Re: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

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Post by colejohnson66 »

taspeotis wrote: post #64
junon wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But that is copyright infringement. You're not allowed to copy some work, modify it, then slap the original copyright on it. This is an illegal website, prone to being taken down by AWS. It's just strange.

Yes mate, Internet Police Officer Jeff Bezos has been dispatched and will take this illegal website down right away. (Using copyrighted material is permitted under fair use; this website is a parody. I’m not a lawyer but at some level preserving the copyright notice is probably better than claiming it as their own.)

Fair use is not a right. It’s a defense. When you are sued for copyright infringement, you have to argue that you’re doing it in fair use. It’s not the “get out of jail free” card people think it is.

Re: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

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Post by izietto »

I guess that's why I'm experiencing weird issues with Heroku:

    remote: Compressing source files... done.
    remote: Building source:
    remote: 
    remote: ! Heroku Git error, please try again shortly.
    remote: ! See http://status.heroku.com for current Heroku platform status.
    remote: ! If the problem persists, please open a ticket
    remote: ! on https://help.heroku.com/tickets/new

Re: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

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Post by roenxi »

junon wrote: post #55
taspeotis wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The people who maintain the unofficial site would have, at some point, used their CTRL and C keys followed not immediately, but closely by, their CTRL and V keys.

But that is copyright infringement. You're not allowed to copy some work, modify it, then slap the original copyright on it. This is an illegal website, prone to being taken down by AWS. It's just strange.

AWS might be smart enough not to make that strategic blunder. They won't want to draw attention to the inaccuracies of their status page.

Re: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

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Post by [deleted] »

junon wrote: post #86
taspeotis wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes mate, Internet Police Officer Jeff Bezos has been dispatched and will take this illegal website down right away. (Using copyrighted material is permitted under fair use; this website is a parody. I’m not a lawyer but at some level preserving the copyright notice is probably better than claiming it as their own.)

This website is not a parody, and fair use does NOT permit you to retain the original copyright notice on the derived work. You may say that the original work is copyright of the respective owners and that this is a parody work. But that's not what the site is doing. The footer contains the original, unaltered copyright, creating confusion as to who owns the derived work. Amazon does not own this, nor do they endorse…

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Re: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

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Post by KptMarchewa »

300bps wrote: post #75

Can we please stop saying, “AWS is down”? AWS consists of over 200 services offered in 86 availability zones in 26 regions each with their own availability. If one service in one availability zone being impaired equals a post about “AWS is down” we might as well auto-post that every day.

Would be cool if this wasn't the region where AWS hosts their internals, making other regions unusable, right?

Re: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

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Post by satya71 »

300bps wrote: post #75

Can we please stop saying, “AWS is down”? AWS consists of over 200 services offered in 86 availability zones in 26 regions each with their own availability. If one service in one availability zone being impaired equals a post about “AWS is down” we might as well auto-post that every day.

Seems enough services in us-east-1 are down to cause most apps to fail. My simple app uses 10s of AWS services, at least some of which are out.

Re: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

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Post by loopdoend »

BossingAround wrote: post #89
IceWreck wrote: post #50

Honestly my server at home has more uptime than US-East-1

Does your server at home handle similar traffic to that of US-East-1 since you're comparing uptime? Simiarly, my laptop, if I keep it plugged in the wall, and enable httpd on localhost, will surely have better uptime than any of the top clouds. I'd bet that it'd have 100% uptime if I plugged in a UPS and cared for traffic on my local network only.

Your home ISP has 100% uptime? That's incredible.

Re: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

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Post by azernik »

junon wrote: post #90
bsenftner wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Satire is the loophole of Copyright. If you satire ANYTHING you can use their copyrights in the satire. One could safely and legally drive an entire nation's transportation industry thru that loophole.

No, fair use does NOT allow you to retain the original copyright. That would be passing off a derived work as the original copyright holder's work, which could be very damaging. This is a violation of fair use, if it could even be considered that to begin with.

That's more of a trademark issue, and would require a reasonable consumer to be likely to be deceived. Which they're not.

Re: Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again

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Post by sawmurai »

300bps wrote: post #75

Can we please stop saying, “AWS is down”? AWS consists of over 200 services offered in 86 availability zones in 26 regions each with their own availability. If one service in one availability zone being impaired equals a post about “AWS is down” we might as well auto-post that every day.

It's like my grandma saying "Honey, the internet is broken again." xD
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