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by haunter 673 days ago
>My wife just received an email from the online retailer. She has been asked to "Not take any photographs or copies of the product in question due to copyright issues" and it states, "the product must be returned immediately by special delivery by [DATE]."

>There's some other statements as well about our account being terminated if we fail to return the product by the specific date. We've got a lot of movies and series that we have purchased over the years on this account, I wouldn't want to lose them.

This story is so fake it hurts. Reddit eating up ragebait is one thing but posts like this doesn't belong to HN at all

1 comments

Does it really matter if it's fake? It's a plausible scenario, and worth discussing. Fiction books can raise interesting questions about science and technology. And the implications of AI is very much HN's wheelhouse.
Yes, reality does matter.
Possible but fictional scenarios can absolutely be worth discussing, but not if they’re falsely presented as real.
>Does it really matter if it's fake?

Yes? How is this even a question