As long as companies employ morally vacuous techniques to strip us of our fundamental freedoms, I say, copyright should be completely disregarded by the global citizenry as dead law. The AI labs have set the precedent here.

Why should big companies get to have rights and freedoms when such things aren't afforded to us? Long live piracy. May our spirits never falter.

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faangguyindia 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

1. Create a law

2. Break it when it's more profitable to break it and pay fines.

That's what people with power have always done.

Let it be taxi madallion or ai training on other people's code and books.

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iamsaitam 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

What does this have to do with copyright? This is stealing pure and simple. If you walk out of a museum with one of its art pieces, you're not going to get arrested for copyright infringement.

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KetoManx64 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What did he steal? He was receiving the binary data anyways when he streams it on his devices. How does him just keeping that binary data on his phone/computer instead of deleting it qualify as "theft"?

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pavel_lishin 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What if I walk out of a museum having taken a high-quality photograph of a photography exhibit? What have I stolen, then?

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Parae 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you go to a country, steal all the art, create a museum in your country, make money out of it, how would you call it ?

	▲	none2585 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		The British Museum

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WarcrimeActual 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Being this much of a bootlicker for mega corps under the guise of "law abiding" is dumb. It's also and incredibly disingenuous argument. Stealing a physical thing is one thing, bit perfect copying of a digital item removes it from nobody's possession. And since I don't believe that companies have the right to infinite money for having stolen enough from previous endeavors to buy up the rights to things people like, taking it in any way you can is lawful regardless of if it's legal.

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rcbdev 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

But it's not like that now, is it? I created an identical copy of the art piece and provide it for free to enjoyers of art all over the world.