just a reminder again that we were told over and over that a 13 year old downloading a Limp Bizkit mp3 was an existential threat to society
I believe they call this "finding out" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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I mean, it is, but for different reasons.
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right, both of these things are bad for humanity
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this is amazing. ‘have you considered that punishing me for my uniquely flagrant disregard for established law would be bad for my business? pretty unfair’
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did metallica shed all those tears for nought
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Don’t let Lars Ulrich hear about this…
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unpopular opinion but they weren't really wrong, the internet did destroy the music industry as we knew it
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Here's proof: www.wired.com/2003/05/p2p-...
P2P Whipping Boy: Know the Risks
Sued by the music industry trade group RIAA for running a "Napster-like" network on campus, Joe Nievelt agreed to pay $15,000 to settle the lawsuit. But the Michigan Tech junior says he doubts his hig...
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although: we did it for the nookie. they're doing it to take that cookie and sticking it up our ayyyy*
(it's the censored version)
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The 13 year old was not a billionaire
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They hounded Aaron Swartz to his death for downloading and sharing paywalled scientific literature (for a more precise and complete story, see eg here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...).
Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia
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I'm not sure I follow the argument here. RIAA were the bad guys and the 13 year old wasn't really a threat to anyone, right?
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Stopped listening to Metallica cause of it.
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if the major comps get shut down, maybe an AI pause could be negotiated with china, like a new nonproliferation treaty. just maybe humanity can survive
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Now I know why they wanna hate me!
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Breaking the law "to advance humanity" is the new "think out of the box".
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"You can't sue us because we think we will lose" is a bold defense strategy.
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All IP law is BS, yes
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Hooligans they were!
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Fuck 'em.
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Willful infringement is a federal crime. Company leadership should all do prison time
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Also remembering Aaron Swartz!!
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I will be sacrificing to all the appropriate tricksters for justice on this one.
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Ok but hear me out - that 13yr old could have taken that mp3 and made a bot that spat out remixes in the style of limp bizkit and we can’t have a society of random children becoming CEOs
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and remember they sued the parents of those of kids...
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Hey wait a sec is the law and it’s application actually this very fluid thing that just bends around the question of what decision will protect the most wealth of the most wealthy people at this particular moment
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I always think about Aaron Swartz' suicide resulting from the legal consequences of liberating JStor whenever the topic of AI/Copywrite comes up. It's a bummer
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Fucking Lars
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Because we live in the worst timeline, the bullshit copying machine people will probably win.
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You wouldn't steal a car, You wouldn't steal a handbag, You wouldn't steal an entire cannon of written work... wait...
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The strategy is clearly "as quickly as possible, get to too-big-to-fail."
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I want to know where the fuck Lars Ullrich is? Metallica made such a biiiig deal out of file sharing but I dont hear a peep now.
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Copyright needs to die.
Not for AI, but because there just isn't a point.
It only gets used by rich mfs and evil corpos anyways
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Fuck all of it. AI, LLMs, all of it. Let it burn.
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ack but why go after anthropic first guys please hit the badder guys first
