Interesting. I thought the appeal of piracy-related stories on HN was that there's a lot of piracy going on, as private individuals.
And also because some subset of those consider piracy a hobby, mission, or right, not only a pragmatic way to get the content they want.
But I guess some people could be interested in the platform responsibility angle.
However, when discussing obviously entirely piracy platforms, isn't the interest and dialogue different, than it is for general-purpose platforms with only a fraction of the user contributions being problematic, and good-faith efforts to mitigate those?
I bet that too is a ton of what drives interest, the platform angle was just the primary thing that came to mind now that that’s more the world I think about
The piracy discussion is also hugely fascinating; I’m sure a good portion of HN remember Napster and friends, and the endless discussions had about that. We don’t seem to talk about it a lot.
And also because some subset of those consider piracy a hobby, mission, or right, not only a pragmatic way to get the content they want.
But I guess some people could be interested in the platform responsibility angle.
However, when discussing obviously entirely piracy platforms, isn't the interest and dialogue different, than it is for general-purpose platforms with only a fraction of the user contributions being problematic, and good-faith efforts to mitigate those?