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quailblog is a personal blog at blog.curiousquail.com about culture and games. Since 2026, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's post about AI scraping and copyright, and use it to contrast Aaron Swartz's prosecution for scraping with Meta's scraping. The comments do not assess the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-08-20
What Hacker News says?
While they can scrape all whole web, ignoring copyright content. Sometimes Gemini even output images with watermarks from a popular licensed media seller. Mean while Aron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping[1] and finally he end up taking his life. 1: https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-crea...
Comment linking /im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-something-meta-is-doing-with-little-consequence/
on “google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update”Submitted Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence as a story · 94 points
HN discussion> Taking literal the entirety of human thought and existence, distilling it, and reselling it to you piecemeal with whatever god forsaken manipulation that corporations are likely to apply to it. From earlier this month, "Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence": * https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-crea... * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379550…
Comment linking /im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-something-meta-is-doing-with-little-consequence/
on “Debian: Retiring from the Project (Vv221)”Submitted Ranking Kickstarter Games I Backed but Never Finished or Ended Up Playing at All as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-crea... What about using torrents to acquire that content?
Comment linking /im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-something-meta-is-doing-with-little-consequence/
on “Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU”Submitted Spirit Crossing's AI Problem as a story · 1 points
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