PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold funds for 180 days

Re:PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold fu... by 1001101 on Saturday December 29, 2018 @12:09PM (#18784528)

Cutting a business off from the financial system seems like a fairly harsh punishment for plagiarism, especially when there are other routes for a remedy. We may never know if that was the reason, though, so it's hard to measure whether justice was done or not.

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Re:PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold fu... by judge2020 on Saturday December 29, 2018 @12:20PM (#18784587)

I suspect that one of the sites they plagiarized which accept PP donations/subscriptions asked PP to take them off or risk the large news company switching to another payment processor.

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Re:PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold fu... by abnry on Saturday December 29, 2018 @02:26PM (#18785248)

I don't know if it is too harsh. What seems unfair is that paypal gives no reason.

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Re:PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold fu... by SmellyGeekBoy on Saturday December 29, 2018 @12:21PM (#18784591)

Well, there's plagiarism and then there's impersonating a well-known (admittedly in niche circles) brand to make money. I think they made a good call here.

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Re:PayPal has permanently banned The Hacker News and hold fu... by slang800 on Sunday January 06, 2019 @11:14PM (#18842725)

So, rather than using our existing copyright / trademark system to handle cases of brand impersonation or stealing content, we're just going to rely on payment processor companies to punish people? That sounds like a really bad idea.

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