It’s probably a cost-benefit calculation. Go after a mega-corp and they’ll drag it through the courts for decades and do their best to waste every penny you have. Nail the person who’s crippled, on disability, cannot afford to pay for subscriptions to view or use something, it’ll be way cheaper, and now you’re the Law and Justice people.
Thinking about it, that’s literally just a long winded way of saying exactly the same thing, but I feel that context matters a bit.
Kiddo, you OK? You keep making thought out, reasonable, definitely-not-shitpost comments. If you’re taking a break from it, turning a new leaf, I’ll support you kid. Your mum and I care about you, we just want to see you thrive, and be the best you can be at whatever you turn your hand to.
Couldn’t help the deep-cut joke. Keep this behaviour up and I’ll have to change your user tag 🤣❤️
The copyright industry has pushed the “making available” narrative for so long, that’s sort of become the dominant talking point. IANAL, but as an internet user, I have opinions*:
a. That seems entirely backwards from what the law intends. “Making a copy” is done by the downloader, which is explicitly what the law is about.
b. The industry only went the other way because it was more convenient from a litigation perspective. It’s far easier to sue one person for seeding to 100 peers than to go after the 100 individuals who downloaded from that seeder. They got a few courts to go along with the more loose interpretation to get precedent for the next and the next suit.
* always be aware of your local copyright laws before listening to some rando online.
It IS legal to download stuff if you don’t seed where I live. But it’s still not legal to create derived works and then claim copyright on those works.
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In Canada that is the law but making it publicly available through a chat bot would still be illegal
Meta has a chatbot that makes pirated books available?
Meta AI
It can’t even reproduce the opening paragraph of Moby Dick
Our legal system just cares how much money you have for lawyers.
It’s probably a cost-benefit calculation. Go after a mega-corp and they’ll drag it through the courts for decades and do their best to waste every penny you have. Nail the person who’s crippled, on disability, cannot afford to pay for subscriptions to view or use something, it’ll be way cheaper, and now you’re the Law and Justice people.
Thinking about it, that’s literally just a long winded way of saying exactly the same thing, but I feel that context matters a bit.
So not only was this multi-billion dollar, fortune 100 company too stingy to pay for training data, it was too stingy to reseed the data it pirated!
Either seed or don’t torrent. Don’t be a leech.
Bro the entire MO of a corporate entity is to leech.
These people own us
Kiddo, you OK? You keep making thought out, reasonable, definitely-not-shitpost comments. If you’re taking a break from it, turning a new leaf, I’ll support you kid. Your mum and I care about you, we just want to see you thrive, and be the best you can be at whatever you turn your hand to.
Couldn’t help the deep-cut joke. Keep this behaviour up and I’ll have to change your user tag 🤣❤️
I don’t see why a girl can’t enjoy best of both worlds;)
As long as you try your best, we’ll always be proud of you.
God damn leech
Lmao wouldn’t it have been great if they made this argument 20 or so years ago?
If this defense is accepted by the courts it will make downloading pirated content legal for everyone.
Technically, it’s already legal(?).
You don’t get in trouble for downloading. You get in trouble for uploading, since you would be distributing copyrighted material.
The way the BitTorrent protocol works, you’re always uploading and downloading, which is why people often get nasty letters from their ISPs.
But downloading from Usenet or something? They don’t care, as long as you’re not uploading.
Please do not spread disinformation.
https://www.garfinkelcriminallaw.com/chicagocriminalblog/can-i-get-jail-time-if-i-download-a-movie-illegally
Well it depends where you live…
The copyright industry has pushed the “making available” narrative for so long, that’s sort of become the dominant talking point. IANAL, but as an internet user, I have opinions*:
a. That seems entirely backwards from what the law intends. “Making a copy” is done by the downloader, which is explicitly what the law is about.
b. The industry only went the other way because it was more convenient from a litigation perspective. It’s far easier to sue one person for seeding to 100 peers than to go after the 100 individuals who downloaded from that seeder. They got a few courts to go along with the more loose interpretation to get precedent for the next and the next suit.
* always be aware of your local copyright laws before listening to some rando online.
Piracy I can forgive, but leeching… that’s unforgivable.
Oh not only are you caught torrenting everything on the internet, but you’re also a leech? Talk about a piece of shit.
Also if this holds, piracy is legal. We’ll just all switch to Usenet where you don’t need to seed!
It IS legal to download stuff if you don’t seed where I live. But it’s still not legal to create derived works and then claim copyright on those works.
Nothing’s illegal if you don’t get caught, LOL!