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Madisonian: On Governance and More
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Madisonian: On Governance and More is a personal blog at madisonian.net about politics and security. Since 2012, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Oracle v. Google: Digging Deeper”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Madisonian, a governance and law blog, for IP and privacy analysis. Commenters cite its posts on the Oracle v. Google fair use ruling and on Solove's privacy arguments.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Oracle v. Google: Digging Deeper2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-09
What Hacker News says?
I was interpolating, the article implies wget but I didn’t mean to imply I had verified that or anything. I’ll admit I did make a stronger statement than intended and was relying on third party interpretations of the code. Thanks for the clarification! I think weev may have used wget in his AT&T work where he discovered links or interactions between customer data and iOS in an AT&T subsite? http://madisonian.net/201…
Comment linking /2013/04/09/academics-go-to-jail-cfaa-edition/
on “YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA”Submitted Can a Website Operator Disclose Identifying Information About Blog Commenters? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe Solove/Bartow thing has been bouncing around for a few years now. One of Bartow's responses: http://madisonian.net/2011/05/26/of-debunking-and-willful-di... She seems to be more annoyed with the idea that Solove's writings read like a High School sophomore's rather than the validity of his arguments.
Comment linking /2011/05/26/of-debunking-and-willful-distortions/
on “Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide'”Submitted Oracle v. Google: Digging Deeper as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis may have already been decided (in the direction of APIs not being copyrighted) by Lotus v Borland: http://madisonian.net/2012/05/09/oracle-v-google-digging-dee... Note that this a blog post by a very respected IP law expert (cited by the Supreme Court in recent decisions). One detail I find particularly interesting is that, unlike most common summaries which focus on the UI issues, he points out that there was…
Comment linking /2012/05/09/oracle-v-google-digging-deeper/
on “Oracle loses on fair use; Only rangeCheck left (w/o new trial)”Submitted Score One for the Open Source (or maybe not) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionChina doesn't acknowledge virtual theft, which caused some problems here: ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4072704.stm ) But a later case said that virtual property should be protected by law: ( http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/24/content_1142726... ) Dutch authorities arrested someone for virtual theft: ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7094764.stm ) Here's another Dutch case, involving real world violen…
Comment linking /2012/02/01/dutch-supreme-court-decides-virtual-theft-case/
on “More than $215,000 stolen from Bitcoinica in Linode incident”Submitted Free Sherlock Holmes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Brief Initial Thoughts on Apple v. Samsung as a story · 1 points
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