NPR Intern Gets an Earful After Blogging About 11,000 Songs

Re:NPR Intern Gets an Earful After Blogging About 11,000 Songs by rhizome on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @09:32PM (#4140050)

Why do you get to demand a third choice, besides "Pay 99 Cents" and "Don't Get The Song"?

We get to because technology provides it. It's not about reasonableness, but ability and convenience. Is business and commerce suddenly subject to morality?

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Re:NPR Intern Gets an Earful After Blogging About 11,000 Songs by tptacek on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @10:14PM (#4140151)

Awesome. How many YC companies are there now with web apps? How many of their admin consoles do I get to get because technology allows it? I bet a bunch of them would be happy to buy access back from me once I take it from them.

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Re:NPR Intern Gets an Earful After Blogging About 11,000 Songs by rhizome on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @11:08PM (#4140349)

Huh? Hysterical.

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Re:NPR Intern Gets an Earful After Blogging About 11,000 Songs by tptacek on Thursday June 21, 2012 @10:58AM (#4142293)

I am struggling to see what's hysterical about it at all. Do you not read the news? Or do you genuinely believe that most startups aren't a half day away from a game-over flaw?

Or, like most nerds, are you comfortable with "might makes right" as long as you're the one with the might, and something you perceive as a giant faceless corporation is what the might is directed at?

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Re:NPR Intern Gets an Earful After Blogging About 11,000 Songs by waterlesscloud on Thursday June 21, 2012 @12:16AM (#4140531)

Well, if business has nothing to do with morality and the technology allows it, what's wrong with tptacek's proposal?

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