One of the few sites where people <i>really</i> care about this issue and half the comments in this thread are people wondering why we should even bother. I'd laugh if I wasn't so disappointed in you.
if google, yahoo, ebay, reddit, mozilla, zynga, AOL, twitter, facebook, linkedIn, etc can do it then i can't see why HN (being all about dev and startup community) can't do it.
Put down that book citizen, there are copyrighted words in there that you haven't paid for yet. Dont make me taze you.<p>It's coming, sooner or later, the only thing we can do is fight it like alcohol drinkers did with prohibition.