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Comment by pwenzel | Hacker News Reader

The 90s are back! Clinton is running for president, and the legality hyperlinks are up for debate again.

In 1999, a similar lawsuit was brought up against 2600 Magazine over the issue of linking to source code that could have the potential to violate copyright:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_City_Studios,_Inc._v...

http://www.cnn.com/1999/TECH/ptech/12/28/dvd.crack/

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And don't forget the renewed crypto wars ...

..and bubble burst in a few years?

HN's Law: The deeper the comment chain, the higher the probability someone talks about bubble burst

Might as well call it Weirdy's Law.

I'll take it!

I mean, the deeper the comment chain, the higher the probability of someone talking about X, where X can be literally any topic.

That sounds rather optimistic. You really think it'll be a few years?

Maybe today, the average judge has a basic understanding of what a hyperlink is.

Everything old is new again.

Everything new is old already.

"Plus ça change..."

The older you get, the more you realize just how true this is.

It's the 90s on the European internet in other ways, or almost.

For instance broadband penetration in Belgium is about where it was in 2003. There are lots of internet cafes.

Edit: This is incorrect. European broadband is fine.

I think you are reading the wrong statistics. What has stagnated in Belgium since 2003 is the percentage of broadband connections that are ADSL. Between 2003 and 2008 alone broadband penetration more than doubled.

ADSL is not broadband it is fraudband.

Not when its faster than broadband :)

/dev/null 21%[======> ] 301,70M 15,8MB/s eta 1m 40s

Uh...

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