I feel like there’s been a big flip-flop in the past few years.
I remember not too long ago the hay day of “Piracy isn’t theft! Of course I would download a car!” as a backlash to the government prosecution of piracy.
Someone could download a petabyte of music and be seeding it to everyone under the sun, and people would defend it as fair use and freedom of information.
Now, when someone downloads a petabyte of information and is using it to train an AI, those same people decry piracy as theft, but the government calls it fair use.
Not making a moral judgement either way here. Just an observation about how the attitudes have drastically changed on both sides.
I think the difference is money. AI conpanies are making money from pirated data, seeding music isn’t making money. And governments are lobbied by people making money from AI, not music pirates.
I feel like there’s been a big flip-flop in the past few years.
I remember not too long ago the hay day of “Piracy isn’t theft! Of course I would download a car!” as a backlash to the government prosecution of piracy.
Someone could download a petabyte of music and be seeding it to everyone under the sun, and people would defend it as fair use and freedom of information.
Now, when someone downloads a petabyte of information and is using it to train an AI, those same people decry piracy as theft, but the government calls it fair use.
Not making a moral judgement either way here. Just an observation about how the attitudes have drastically changed on both sides.
I think the difference is money. AI conpanies are making money from pirated data, seeding music isn’t making money. And governments are lobbied by people making money from AI, not music pirates.
It’s less “defending copy-write laws” and more “pointing out that the already unfair laws are being applied disproportionately”.
Copy-write laws are still laughably bad, but now they only apply to us.
I dont make money pirating a distributing, and many piracy communities have soft rules around stealing only from corps not indies.
When corps pirate, they pirate from EVERYONE, and then use that pirated date/product to make a shit ton of money.
Which group do you think actually gets sued and fined for said piracy?