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Re:Pirated vs. paying customers - this is what you get with ... by pasbesoin on Friday February 26, 2010 @10:44AM (#1153315)
I somewhat disagree. While this has been going around an awful lot, lately, I would not call it zero content. It doesn't have much text, but it makes its point quite succinctly. In terms of user experience, the user is penalized for taking the legal route. Describing this in text would likely be less effective (depending in part on one's writing skills) and take significantly longer to read and process.

At the same time, there has been more and more "Reddit" ("Digg", etc.) content showing up lately on HN. For me, the quality of this item rises somewhat above that, and its brevity does not cost me much time. Also, some people here have simply given up on the other sites due to the low signal to noise ratio. When an item contributes enough to thought and conversation, its repetition here may be appropriate.

To repeat myself, I find this graphic a cogent, concise comment on how the entrenched IP industry shoots itself (and its users) in the foot in terms of poor -- I might almost say sabotaged -- user experience. It might benefit from being cited in its original context (depending on the nature of that context) instead of as an isolated graphic or in some piece of blogspam (which the poster has avoided).

Re:Pirated vs. paying customers - this is what you get with ... by eru on Friday February 26, 2010 @01:39PM (#1153784)
Yes. (Though the graphic could have been a web-site instead, that allowed copy-and-paste and screenreader-acces for the blind.)