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Lawrence Lessig
Personal blog · lessig.org/blogpoliticsculture
Lawrence Lessig's personal blog at lessig.org covers politics and culture. Since 2008, 33 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “Lawrence Lessig: The made-up dramas of the Wall Street Journal”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Lawrence Lessig's blog and books on copyright, free culture, net neutrality and campaign-finance corruption. Commenters point to Free Culture and his IP history writing.
- Recommended for · 3 comments
- Free Culture urged as reading on piracy; blog called worthwhile; his IP history accounts called a good introduction.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Beginning in the mid-1990s, his focus shifted to the Internet and intellectual property. Since 2007, his focus has been on institutional corruption, and the fight to establish a representative democracy in America.
Most-linked posts?
- Lawrence Lessig: The made-up dramas of the Wall Street Journal3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2008-12-15
- /product/free-culture/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-09-16
- Lesterland: The Talk and eBook by Lawrence Lessig2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-03
What Hacker News says?
> So you have no examples or explanations for what “traditions” I have plenty. Now, I do not wish to be rude Abduhl, but I find your "question" a little disingenuous, and your expectation that I act as your personal tutor on well documented matters a tad entitled. This isn't my full-time job, and I come here mainly to look for interesting and unusual viewpoints. Have you done even the most cursory research into the…
Comment linking /
on “Delaware judge discovers hidden entity recruiting people to be patent trolls”Submitted Lawrence Lessig: The made-up dramas of the Wall Street Journal as a story · 48 points
HN discussionYou can definitely make a moral argument in favor of piracy as a form of civil disobedience. Aaron Schwartz [1] and the book Free Culture[2] are the two bigger examples that come to mind. [1] https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/committees/ip/ipreports/swartzcas... [2] https://lessig.org/product/free-culture/
Comment linking /product/free-culture/
on “The ownership and future of Mullvad VPN”Submitted Open source licenses upheld in US court as a story · 24 points
HN discussionI think you should read https://lessig.org/product/free-culture/ , maybe you will change your mind.
Comment linking /product/free-culture/
on “Putting Z-Library on IPFS”Submitted Larry Lessig: On why I am not running as a story · 21 points
HN discussionIf bribery has to be covert, it can be investigated by the legal system. In its current form, bribery is essentially legal. Think about Lessig's suggestion. http://rootstrikers.org http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-december-13-2011/exclu... http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-december-13-2011/exclu... http://lessig.org/content/av/
Comment linking /content/av/
on “Show HN: I'm tired of corrupt US politicians, so I created this”Submitted Caving into bullies (aka, here we go again) as a story · 20 points
HN discussionRef: http://www.lessig.org/2013/06/on-bilderberg/
Comment linking /2013/06/on-bilderberg/
on “Jeff Bezos on Post purchase”Submitted Larry Lessig's Change Congress Launched as a story · 19 points
HN discussion>Why would people lose rights by acting together with other people? Well, they as individuals don't. And shouldn't! Why would preventing corporations from funding politicians prevent the individual members of a corporation from funding politicians? Organizations probably shouldn't be donating to political campaigns or political action committees, be they unions or banks or technology companies. Politics is for the i…
Comment linking /2013/04/lesterland-the-talk-the-ebook-the-abook-as-in-audio-book/
on “Cable Companies Are Astroturfing Fake Consumer Support to End Net Neutrality”Submitted YouTube rolling out download links for videos as a story · 10 points
HN discussionIt's less common but hardly unprecedented. 1. Charles Stross (one of the four examples above) used to point readers to BitTorrent for his free book downloads: http://web.archive.org/web/20090514034859/http://www.antipop... (And he complains about automated scanners flagging legit files as copyright violations: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/11/imbecile... ) 2. Unni Drougge use The Pirate bay to pos…
Comment linking /blog/2004/03/free_culture_is.html
on “Google disables AdSense account of user for sharing free book via torrent”Submitted The Future of Ideas is now Free as a story · 9 points
HN discussionYes, I'm against protecting abstract ideas with no implementation. Even when there is an implementation, it's not obvious to me that it should be especially protected by a government (especially a fallible government, which is all of them, as well-meaning as they might be). I'm definitely not in favor of granting you protection on a "new form of scheduling". A program or calendar or whatever that implements it, sure…
Comment linking /content/standard/0,1902,4296,00.html
on “Larry Page: If we can't win on quality, we shouldn't win at all.”Submitted We Should Be Protesting, Too as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMatt didn't get the viacom / youtube thing right. The DMCA provides a certain copyright-related safe harbor to online service providers, not just ISPs as he states. It is far from clear that youtube violated copyrights (that is the point of the litigation after all). see: http://www.lessig.org/blog/2007/03/viacom_v_youtube.html
Comment linking /blog/2007/03/viacom_v_youtube.html
on “IP”Submitted Colbert is mad as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIs it perhaps because you aren't allowed to read eBooks to your children ? http://www.lessig.org/content/standard/0,1902,22914,00.html
Comment linking /content/standard/0,1902,22914,00.html
on “For Their Children, Many E-Book Fans Insist on Paper”Submitted Lawrence Lessig stops blogging as a story · 4 points
HN discussion"... Lawrence Lessig, an Internet law professor at Stanford University and an influential proponent of network neutrality, recently shifted gears by saying at a conference that content providers should be able to pay for faster service ..." wsj also did a job on Lessig who replied with "The made-up dramas of the Wall Street Journal" ~ http://lessig.org/blog/2008/12/the_madeup_dramas_of_the_wall...
Comment linking /blog/2008/12/the_madeup_dramas_of_the_wall.html
on “WSJ made to believe Google abandons strict net neutrality”Submitted A physicist on the “Lessig style” (2008) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionApparently Lessig is less than happy about their reporting too - http://lessig.org/blog/2008/12/the_madeup_dramas_of_the_wall...
Comment linking /blog/2008/12/the_madeup_dramas_of_the_wall.html
on “WSJ made to believe Google abandons strict net neutrality”Submitted Professor Larry Lessig - The Code Is the Law (1999) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYeah. Democracy. It sucks. It is worth considering Lessig's approach to changing Congress as a way to mitigate some of these problems: http://change-congress.org/ Lots of worthwhile and related stuff on his blog: http://www.lessig.org/blog/
Comment linking /blog/
on “Selflessness vs Selfishness”Submitted Conyers once again threatening open access as a story · 2 points
HN discussion1) Your book is available for "Limited Preview" only, not "Full View." Google will let users search within the book, and will show them a limited number of pages. It won't let them read the book from start to finish. (I was able to read 18 pages.) Next to the "preview" it displays links to buy the book from various retailers. 2) Do you think Google hurts websites by letting people search their contents and see excer…
Comment linking /blog/2008/10/on_the_google_book_search_agre.html
on “Any other authors on here horrified at Google Book Search?”Submitted A physicist on the "Lessig style" as a story · 2 points
HN discussionEveryone should read into the real history of so-called "intellectual property"- a made up phrase that tries to conflate trademarks, copyright and patents as if they had anything to do with each other. Lawrence Lessig's accounts are a good introduction [0]. Research the censorship laws in the century prior to the Statute of Anne, and the burnings in St James' Square where 'unauthorised' publishers were immolated on…
Comment linking /product/free-culture/
on “Trolling Brands by Democratizing Access to Color”Submitted Lessig's Final Free Culture Talk as a story · 2 points
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