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Re:Scrape like the big boys by matheusmoreira on Friday November 05, 2021 @07:15PM (#29125752)
Do I need to explain that copyright is practically unenforceable in the 21st century? Data is trivially copied and there's nothing you can do to fight that, no amount of laws will ever make it non-trivial again. Even if you successfully sue somebody for this, it won't stop them.

At some point people are gonna have to accept this.

Re:Scrape like the big boys by nickff on Friday November 05, 2021 @07:57PM (#29126004)
>"Do I need to explain that copyright is practically unenforceable in the 21st century?"

This sentence added nothing substantive to your comment, and made it rude; could you please be a bit more polite in the future?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Scrape like the big boys by simondotau on Friday November 05, 2021 @09:08PM (#29126510)
For what it's worth, I didn't think it was rude. And I do think it was a substantive aspect of his response. It's a valid perspective even if I personally think it's somewhat orthogonal and incomplete.
Re:Scrape like the big boys by matheusmoreira on Friday November 05, 2021 @08:11PM (#29126092)
I was replying to a similar sentence, but it is true that in the end it did nothing but escalate the situation. I apologize and yes, I will try to be more polite.
Re:Scrape like the big boys by simondotau on Friday November 05, 2021 @07:34PM (#29125862)
I was responding to a question of whether it was theft, not whether such theft is morally grey or unstoppable in practice.

Yours is a somewhat orthogonal point and one I don’t entirely disagree with.

Re:Scrape like the big boys by account42 on Monday November 08, 2021 @05:24AM (#29147865)
Well if you want to stick to the hard facts then it's even simpler: copyright infringement is not theft - those things are covered by entirely separate laws.
Re:Scrape like the big boys by echelon on Saturday November 06, 2021 @12:32PM (#29131608)
What are copyright strikes, then?
Re:Scrape like the big boys by matheusmoreira on Saturday November 06, 2021 @04:27PM (#29133543)
Not even a thing in my country. Likely easy to avoid in others.