• NotNotMike@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    I was looking for resources for a custom LLM and noticed they had a ton of copyrighted books and wondered to myself how the heck that was legal

    I guess this answers that

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      5 months ago

      Just like regular libraries have copyrighted books: they lend them to one person at a time.

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        5 months ago

        Which IA failed to do, which is why they got sued, and why they can’t lend those publishers’ books at all anymore.

        I have no sympathy.

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          5 months ago

          Just want to let you know why you’re being downvoted. It’s not because you’re wrong. From a legal perspective you’re right. This court case was decided this way because you’re right.

          But that last line about having no sympathy. There’s a meme for this.

          “You’re not wrong. You’re just an asshole.”

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            It’s an asshole perspective that the IA dearly needs to listen to. Don’t poke a bear when you have so much to lose. Doesn’t matter if you’re “in the right”. The history books are littered with the corpses of righteous people.

            Let the EFF handle the quixotic battles, it’s what they’re best at.

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              5 months ago

              “No one should stand up for new rights. Don’t rock the boat bro.”

              Your mindset is the road to a dictatorship.

              What does the Mafia do? Show up, “Wow you got a lot of valuable things here Be a shame if someone broke them. Best listen to us.”

              The Mafia leverages potential of damage to existing value to extract cooperation.

              I see very little difference here between the Mafia and the plaintiff.