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yoavm 5 hours ago

Assuming you are referring to non-books kind of content: I assume that if this happens to anyone, we'd learn about it and all stop seeding AA's content until they explain what happened and how they're making sure it doesn't happen again. The poor person this happened to will have to explain that this wasn't at all what they thought the software was doing.

As I said in other comments - yes, this requires some kind of trust in the AA project. Personally, I tend to have more trust in this kind of projects than in big corporations, of which people are happily running their binaries without blinking. However, I'm not trying to convince people to trust AA - this project is simply meant for those who want support them.

SecretDreams 5 hours ago | parent [-]

AA has plenty of illegal and gray content. It's not something laypeople should help to seed. You need to go in eyes wide open and protect yourself if you're participating, which I do not feel you are sufficiently emphasizing in this pitch.

margalabargala 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah it has a lot of content that violates copyright! That's illegal!

acessoproibido 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What is an example of illegal content that is distributed by AA?

throwaway2037 33 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

To clarify your question, are you asking if "AA actually distributes stolen content" (one could argue no, since it is only available by Torrent) or "the stolen contents of AA" (essentially every published book in existance)?

Honestly, in these HN discussions, I am disappointed that people seem very casual about mass piracy of copyrighted works.

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