This is absolutely horrible and shows complete lack of respect for copyright. It should be taken down immediately.
Ah, but from a legal perspective, this makes all the difference. It is, I'm sorry to say, copyright infringement and goes beyond what fair use permits.
The comment I was replying to wasn't arguing that it was illegal, but actually wrong and "lacking respect". I was just pointing out that he should have the same opinion towards things like readability.
Also I think readability did do it server side, and so do other things like RSS readers.
For starters, I'd look at the Supreme Court's opinion in Grokster. Here it is in HN-suitable pseudocode. :)
IF $distributing_product_used_by_others_to_infringe == FALSE THEN
FIND_NO_LIABILITY ( "None found" )
ELSEIF $distributing_with_object_of_promoting_infringement == TRUE THEN
FIND_LIABILITY ( "You're inducing infringement ")
ELSE
IF $actual_knowledge_of_infringements == TRUE and $failed_to_block == TRUE THEN
FIND_LIABILITY ( "You're a contributory infringer ")
ELSE
IF $capable_of_substantial_noninfringing_uses == TRUE THEN
FIND_NO_LIABILITY ( "None found" )
ELSE
FIND_LIABILITY ( "You're a contributory infringer ")
END
END
END
UPDATE: A copyright lawyer friend points out via email that I neglected to include vicarious liability. I'll leave the above pseudocode as-is and note vicarious liability here as a bugfix/todo.