Laws are never equally enforced or applied especially when you have tons of investors money. It is a sad reality. https://bsky.app/profile/lonestartallboi.bsky.social/post/3kiib4qnjt324
Laws are never equally enforced or applied especially when you have tons of investors money. It is a sad reality. https://bsky.app/profile/lonestartallboi.bsky.social/post/3kiib4qnjt324 50 comments
@nixCraft I worked at Napster for a minute. Today we would have become a billion dollar company and likely paid artists far more than thieves like Spotify, Apple and Youtube. We were entirely a company of music lovers who cared about artists and were trying hard to figure out a way to move away from piracy towards a sustainable business model. @nixCraft @nixCraft Indeed, Midjourney is an artist the same way Napster was a record collection. @nixCraft when laws are written by criminals, those who commit a crime will be the protected ones. @nixCraft Follows Kant's imperative in the very German form: what if everybody would do it? As long as it requires to be a Billionaire, it is sure not everybody is going to do it. @nixCraft … pretty sure the Napster guy became one of the most prominent mega-billionaires in Silicon Valley, right? (That would be Sean Parker…) so, there’s also a story here of the “little guy” becoming one of thr “big guys” If you’ve ever wondered what a shithole country looks like… Look out your fucking windows! You're right. I would like to see us punish everyone less (or not at all) for free and open use of all IP in existence in perpetuity. There you go, we now can feed every family and make the world a better place. The incentive to create still comes from the excitement of seeing your dreams come true, and not from owning a yacht. Wonderous inventions are created and used together to create even more. I see only good things here, more please! @nixCraft Everytime I read that post I have to think about Aaron Schwartz.. Which also reminds me to rewatch 'The internets own boy' again sometime soon. The capitulation to problems is all to frequent in such declarations Biden cancelled a trillion dollars in corporate tax gifts, then added an EXTRA trillion in taxes, but JUST to bloated corps who hadnt paid taxes since boomers wore shorts Counting to ten lasts ten seconds, to a hundred is a minute and a 1/2. Counting to one trillion is longer than human history 2 trillion dollars in just, fair, extra, taxation isnt the end, its a proof of concept There are steps we can take. @nixCraft While I agree with the sentiment, after around 30 minutes of research I see no evidence that teenagers were sued "for millions." Metallica went after Napster, not the teenagers. There are plenty of reasons to be concerned about the state of the world without needing to resort to exaggerations in order to stoke outrage. But, such is life on social media. @ber There have been enough private "small fry" that have been sued and ruined over torrents. Not 20 years ago, but later. @ber My google-fu seems bad today, or maybe Google itself is not what it once was - but getting caught torrenting here in Germany could cost you about 1000€ if it was only the first time. That's not what I have as petty cash. @donaldball @nixCraft Thanks for your restraint. I'm only stating what I've seen. I've found no evidence of any teenager being successfully sued for millions for P2P file sharing. I think it's also true that many people use social media to foment outrage via exaggeration and that there are plenty of reasons to be outraged with a grounding in facts. @nixCraft Pro Tip: if you fet caught pirating. Just say you were training an AI model. @nixCraft "Impossible to create..." So don't fucking do it, then, you absolute wads. @nixCraft @theresmiling "Impossible to create tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material” - I have a brilliant idea: just don't create crap like ChatGPT in the first place maybe? That headline alone shows the ugly truth of ChatGPT and friends: without references to use in their only half usable answers they were just fancy versions of A.L.I.C.E running on overpriced server farms. @nixCraft usually when I read situations like this I quip the old "Law in its majestic equality denies poor and rich alike from sleeping under bridges" but we l've gone so far even that logic has broken down. "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to whit, there must be in-groups that the law protects but does not bind and there must be out-groups that the law binds but does not protect." @nixCraft i thought the same thing the other day. when they want to steal our work, that's totally legal, when we want to fair use their shit, we're criminals. "There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." -Frank Wilhoit |
@nixCraft We should start a General Purpose Tracker. Call it TrackGPT.