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This happens every time someone brings up torrenting on HN: a baseless, sarcastic, unsubstantiated, "moral" judgement.

Why do you feel the need to stick your head into the comment section and spit out a worthless one-line comment about conscience?

Please keep your morality complex out of our technical discussion.



There are discussions here about legal and technical issues and also about how the service could operate financially. We could discuss UI and how the service was built too.

Why is a discussion about the morality of the service implicitly not allowed ? Where is it carved in stone that the morality of our actions or services must not be discussed on Hackernews ?

Who are you to proclaim this, and in such a harsh manner ?

In discussing a service that is designed to allow users to conduct piracy, a discussion of the morality of that act is entirely permissible.

If I wanted to criticize hyperbovine's comment I would say that it didn't have any in depth thoughts or insight. But that isn't what you did, and the content of your reply is loaded with a lot of pre-recorded attacks.

But your response to him was quite hostile, far out of proportion to the parent comment. I find your aggression towards the topic to be very negative

"morality complex" ? Do you mean to imply that morals are some kind of defect that reasonable people should not be burdened with ?


Oh boo-hoo. If your dainty technical discussion cannot withstand the cold, hard fact that 99% of the time this particular technology is used to steal movies and TV shows, then I'd say that merits some discussion. Interesting btw that it's verboten for me to pass any sort of moral judgement in this thread, whereas you have license to label my opinion worthless. Hypocrite.


I could never see this movie or tv-series because I'm not in the US......... or I could torrent it. See the situation?




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