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enanOP10y ago· 2 in thread

This is my attempt to solve the problem of sites becoming unavailable when they make it to the HN front page. It is also a trial balloon for a new service that I am developing. AMA! :)

greenyoda10y ago

If you're mirroring articles on these sites without permission, wouldn't that be a violation of the owners' copyrights?

enanOP10y ago

That's a valid concern. I believe this service is very similar to Google cache and the copying should be permissible under fair use [1]. But IANAL :)

[1] http://fairuse.stanford.edu/case/field-v-google-inc/

edit: we also respect robots.txt!

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aaronpk10y ago· 1 in thread

You seem to have some UTF-8 issues. Lots of things like "itâ€™s" everywhere.

enanOP10y ago

Thanks, fixed! The content-type header was missing the encoding on the S3 object!

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9 comments

5 comments · 2 top-level

enanOP10y ago· 2 in thread

This is my attempt to solve the problem of sites becoming unavailable when they make it to the HN front page. It is also a trial balloon for a new service that I am developing. AMA! :)

greenyoda10y ago

If you're mirroring articles on these sites without permission, wouldn't that be a violation of the owners' copyrights?

enanOP10y ago

That's a valid concern. I believe this service is very similar to Google cache and the copying should be permissible under fair use [1]. But IANAL :)

[1] http://fairuse.stanford.edu/case/field-v-google-inc/

edit: we also respect robots.txt!

1 more reply

aaronpk10y ago· 1 in thread

You seem to have some UTF-8 issues. Lots of things like "itâ€™s" everywhere.

enanOP10y ago

Thanks, fixed! The content-type header was missing the encoding on the S3 object!

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse