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[monstermachine]

I built an API to flag pirated content last year.

I shared the progress on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26748724

Maybe I can find customers if this passes. :P

[e2le → monstermachine]

Make it a Windows kernel driver for scanning process memory and I'm sure you'll have enterprise customers lining up to buy it. With or without this new legislation. A new tool for spying on their users (students, employees, etc) wont go ignored.

[vkou → e2le]

An employee of a company is not a user of the company, they are an employee.

[Asooka → vkou]

That doesn't remove their right to basic human decency. Like not being spied on.

[vkou → Asooka]

As an employee, you trade time and some basic human decency in exchange for money.

How much decency you trade is debatable, but I assure you, there are millions of people working in industries where losing far more decency is considered normal. Call centers, retail, food all immediately spring to mind.