It rubs me the wrong way that corporations get a free pass on copyright infrigement, while the rest of us are prosecuted as harshly as possible if caught. I think this, together with the morging plagiarism, also indicates a pattern of behaviour from Microsoft that should be reformed. I would prefer if Microsoft were not able to produce AI slop degradations of other people's work and claim it as their own.

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walletdrainer 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> while the rest of us are prosecuted as harshly as possible if caught

But this is just a lie.

Approximately nobody is prosecuted for copyright infringement.

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queenkjuul 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Okay but people have had their lives ruined deliberately by media companies over it. I'm sure you knew what they meant.

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walletdrainer an hour ago | parent [-]

No matter how generously you want to interpret it, it’s obviously false.

We’re moving the goalposts from the government systematically targeting normal people “if caught”, to only a handful of civil cases.

	▲	eggsome 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, as a percentage it's very rare - but some people have died as a result: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz I think most would agree that cases like that act as a deterrent?

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ryandrake 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In general, if you want to get away with a crime, just do it as a corporation or as a billionaire.