5 ms·

Don’t ask Hacker News for legal advice. If you really want to know the answer, ask a lawyer.

Leonard_of_Q 10d ago
Standard answer fit to keep the parasites fed. There is no "the answer" here, there are many answers depending on which lawyers you ask and how much you can afford to feed them. Just release the code somewhere, anonymously, it isn't yours anyway.
- mschuster91 10d ago
  > There is no "the answer" here, there are many answers depending on which lawyers you ask and how much you can afford to feed them. The thing is, at least in Germany, lawyers are required to carry a liability insurance and in the case th advice ends up being really bad you can hold their insurance accountable.
  - twosdai 9d ago
    The ability to hold laweyers accountable not a panacea. In this instance most competent lawyers are going to still give conflicting good advice and charge for it. Because truly the answer boils down to "it depends" and many people will take it many different ways and not be "wrong". Publishing anonymously is a good choice, publishing publically and complying with a removal order is a good choice, not publishing is a good choice. "Good" here being somewhat sound in that it likely wont cause the person publishing a huge life changing issue.
walrus01 10d ago
On the other hand, this is Hacker news, so my first inclination of a response was going to be something like this: "Get some small amount of bitcoin and pay a VPS hosting provider in Moldova for a year's service on a $15-per-month equivalent KVM VM and put what you know on there anonymously as static content, then publish the link here." Not that a sufficiently dedicated nation state federal crime agency or intelligence apparatus probably couldn't trace back to you, but it raises the bar for something like random civil lawsuits from piano companies.
- luipugs 10d ago
  > makes a hacker news post from an 11 year old account > jumps through a lot of inconvenient hoops to "anonymously" publish code Something doesn't add up there.

Standard answer fit to keep the parasites fed. There is no "the answer" here, there are many answers depending on which lawyers you ask and how much you can afford to feed them. Just release the code somewhere, anonymously, it isn't yours anyway.

mschuster91 10d ago
> There is no "the answer" here, there are many answers depending on which lawyers you ask and how much you can afford to feed them. The thing is, at least in Germany, lawyers are required to carry a liability insurance and in the case th advice ends up being really bad you can hold their insurance accountable.
- twosdai 9d ago
  The ability to hold laweyers accountable not a panacea. In this instance most competent lawyers are going to still give conflicting good advice and charge for it. Because truly the answer boils down to "it depends" and many people will take it many different ways and not be "wrong". Publishing anonymously is a good choice, publishing publically and complying with a removal order is a good choice, not publishing is a good choice. "Good" here being somewhat sound in that it likely wont cause the person publishing a huge life changing issue.

walrus01 10d ago

On the other hand, this is Hacker news, so my first inclination of a response was going to be something like this: "Get some small amount of bitcoin and pay a VPS hosting provider in Moldova for a year's service on a $15-per-month equivalent KVM VM and put what you know on there anonymously as static content, then publish the link here." Not that a sufficiently dedicated nation state federal crime agency or intelligence apparatus probably couldn't trace back to you, but it raises the bar for something like random civil lawsuits from piano companies.

luipugs 10d ago
> makes a hacker news post from an 11 year old account > jumps through a lot of inconvenient hoops to "anonymously" publish code Something doesn't add up there.