Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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I have been going down the rabbit hole of copyright, fair use, and the Google Books Settlement recently. This article is a great summary including a lot of the peripheral issues, but the "2003 law review article" linked in TFA is nigh unreadable to me, compared to the actual legal opinions and briefs[0]. They are a couple of fascinating documents. The Authors Guild seems gobsmacked by the final ruling, and so am I. Perhaps the SCOTUS was correct to turn…
Oaw! Just oaw! This is fucked up on so many levels. Once in a lifetime opportunity wasted completely. Yeah, in a hundred years, when current generation and its thinking would completely eradicate from the economics of the world, maybe then another Sisyphus effort like this one would succeed.
needs a 2017 in the title. I started reading without checking the date and it felt familiar, which is not surprising as it's already been submitted on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%09Torching+the+Modern-Day+Library...
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 880
- Total comments
- 262
100+ points or 50+ comments
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