Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
A class-action lawsuit against AI company Anthropic over copyright infringement is nearing settlement, with both parties reaching an agreement in principle1. The lawsuit, filed by authors Andrea Bartz, Kirk Wallace Johnson, and Charles Graeber, alleged Anthropic illegally downloaded millions of books to train its AI models2.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup certified what could be the largest copyright class action ever, potentially including up to 7 million claimants1. The lawsuit claimed Anthropic pirated books from online sources including Books3, Library Genesis, and Pirate Library Mirror2.
"This historic settlement will benefit all class members," said Justin A. Nelson, attorney for the authors1. The parties must file a motion for preliminary approval by September 5, 20251.
While settlement terms remain undisclosed, the case had serious implications - industry advocates warned that if every eligible author filed a claim, it could "financially ruin" the AI industry1. Anthropic had previously argued the lawsuit threatened its survival as a company1.
- Ars Technica - Authors celebrate "historic" settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
- LA Times - AI company Anthropic settles with authors who alleged piracy ↩︎ ↩︎
AI company Anthropic settles with authors who alleged piracy
Anthropic trained its AI assistant Claude using copyrighted texts, according to a lawsuit from several affected authors.Cerys Davies (Los Angeles Times)
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2025: 6 anni di PlusBrothers
26 agosto 2019: i PlusBrothers sono nati come scherzo in un gruppo ristretto su Facebook ma poi l’entusiasmo ci ha portato a valorizzarli come vero esercizio di #scrittura creativa.
I primi anni però abbiamo pubblicato le nostre ispirazioni in modo casuale, senza curarci di quanto senso potessero avere le singole storie.
Ora invece il blog multilingua e il #fediverso ci costringono a fare ordine perché non possiamo continuare a comportarci come se chi legge conoscesse già tutto di noi.
Cancellare le vecchie storie? Non esiste, creiamo l’arcHIVio, lo lasciamo pubblico, e ricominciamo da capo. Il virus senziente ha diritto di presentarsi e partecipare ai nuovi social network decentralizzati al pari (e meglio) degli umani.
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Breaking Down the Lawsuit Against OpenAI Over Teen's Suicide
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Breaking Down the Lawsuit Against OpenAI Over Teen's Suicide
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Holy shit, I thought it would just be another story of the assistant answering a "Tell me how to die" request (and it did, and it's terrible enough), but there's even worse.
The part where the kid says he'd want to be stopped and the assistant tells him he should hide better to make sure nobody can.
He has told it that he was writing a story so that all of this was for the story. He didn’t get anything from ChatGPT that he couldn’t have gotten from a search engine or a chat room or Reddit.
He was mentally ill, his feelings were affirmed, and he made a stupid decision that he was clearly in no mental state to make, and it ended up with severe consequences. Hopefully some people learn some lessons from that.
How To Argue With An AI Booster
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In the last two years I've written no less than 500,000 words, with many of them dedicated to breaking both existent and previous myths about the state of technology and the tech industry itself. While I feel no resentment — I really enjoy writing, and feel privileged to be able to write about this and make money doing so — I do feel that there is a massive double standard between those perceived as "skeptics" and "optimists."To be skeptical of AI is to commit yourself to near-constant demands to prove yourself, and endless nags of "but what about?" with each one — no matter how small — presented as a fact that defeats any points you may have. Conversely, being an "optimist" allows you to take things like AI 2027 — which I will fucking get to — seriously to the point that you can write an entire feature about fan fiction in the New York Times and nobody will bat an eyelid.
In any case, things are beginning to fall apart. Two of the actual reporters at the New York Times (rather than a "columnist") reported out last week that Meta is yet again "restructuring" its AI department for the fourth time, and that it’s considering "downsizing the A.I. division overall," which sure doesn't seem like something you'd do if you thought AI was the future.
Meanwhile, the markets are also thoroughly spooked by an MIT study covered by Fortune that found that 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing, and though MIT NANDA has now replaced the link to the study with a Google Form to request access, you can find the full PDF here, in the kind of move that screams "PR firm wants to try and set up interviews." Not for me, thanks!
In any case, the report is actually grimmer than Fortune made it sound, saying that "95% of organizations are getting zero return [on generative AI]." The report says that "adoption is high, but transformation is low," adding that "...few industries show the deep structural shifts associated with past general-purpose technologies such as new market leaders, disrupted business models, or measurable changes in customer behavior."
Yet the most damning part was the "Five Myths About GenAI in the Enterprise," which is probably the most wilting takedown of this movement I've ever seen:
- AI Will Replace Most Jobs in the Next Few Years → Research found limited layoffs from GenAI, and only in industries that are already affected significantly by AI. There is no consensus among executives as to hiring levels over the next 3-5 years.
- Generative AI is Transforming Business → Adoption is high, but transformation is rare. Only 5% of enterprises have AI tools integrated in workflows at scale and 7 of 9 sectors show no real structural change.
1. Editor's note: Thank you! I made this exact point in February.
- Enterprises are slow in adopting new tech → Enterprises are extremely eager to adopt AI and 90% have seriously explored buying an AI solution.
- The biggest thing holding back AI is model quality, legal, data, risk → What's really holding it back is that most AI tools don't learn and don’t integrate well into workflows.
1. Editor's note: I really do love "the thing that's holding AI back is that it sucks."
- The best enterprises are building their own tools → Internal builds fail twice as often.These are brutal, dispassionate points that directly deal with the most common boosterisms. Generative AI isn't transforming anything, AI isn't replacing anyone, enterprises are trying to adopt generative AI but it doesn't fucking work, and the thing holding back AI is the fact it doesn't fucking work. This isn't a case where "the enterprise" is suddenly going to save these companies, because the enterprise already tried, and it isn't working.
An incorrect read of the study has been that the "learning gap" that makes these things less useful, when the study actually says that "...the fundamental gap that defines the GenAI divide [is that users resist tools that don't adapt, model quality fails without context, and UX suffers when systems can't remember." This isn't something you learn your way out of. The products don't do what they're meant to do, and people are realizing it.
Nevertheless, boosters will still find a way to twist this study to mean something else. They'll claim that AI is still early, that the opportunity is still there, that we "didn't confirm that the internet or smartphones were productivity boosting," or that we're in "the early days" of AI, somehow, three years and hundreds of billions and thousands of articles in.
I'm tired of having the same arguments with these people, and I'm sure you are too. No matter how much blindly obvious evidence there is to the contrary they will find ways to ignore it. They continually make smug comments about people "wishing things would be bad" or suggesting you are stupid — and yes, that is their belief! — for not believing generative AI is disruptive.
Today, I’m going to give you the tools to fight back against the AI boosters in your life. I’m going to go into the generalities of the booster movement — the way they argue, the tropes they cling to, and the ways in which they use your own self-doubt against you.
They’re your buddy, your boss, a man in a gingham shirt at Epic Steakhouse who won't leave you the fuck alone, a Redditor, a writer, a founder or a simple con artist — whoever the booster in your life is, I want you to have the words to fight them with.
How To Argue With An AI Booster
In the last two years I've written no less than 500,000 words, with many of them dedicated to breaking both existent and previous myths about the state of technology and the tech industry itself. While I feel no resentment — I really enjoy writing, and feel privileged to be able to write about this and make money doing so — I do feel that there is a massive double standard between those perceived as "skeptics" and "optimists."To be skeptical of AI is to commit yourself to near-constant demands to prove yourself, and endless nags of "but what about?" with each one — no matter how small — presented as a fact that defeats any points you may have. Conversely, being an "optimist" allows you to take things like AI 2027 — which I will fucking get to — seriously to the point that you can write an entire feature about fan fiction in the New York Times and nobody will bat an eyelid.
In any case, things are beginning to fall apart. Two of the actual reporters at the New York Times (rather than a "columnist") reported out last week that Meta is yet again "restructuring" its AI department for the fourth time, and that it’s considering "downsizing the A.I. division overall," which sure doesn't seem like something you'd do if you thought AI was the future.
Meanwhile, the markets are also thoroughly spooked by an MIT study covered by Fortune that found that 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing, and though MIT NANDA has now replaced the link to the study with a Google Form to request access, you can find the full PDF here, in the kind of move that screams "PR firm wants to try and set up interviews." Not for me, thanks!
In any case, the report is actually grimmer than Fortune made it sound, saying that "95% of organizations are getting zero return [on generative AI]." The report says that "adoption is high, but transformation is low," adding that "...few industries show the deep structural shifts associated with past general-purpose technologies such as new market leaders, disrupted business models, or measurable changes in customer behavior."
Yet the most damning part was the "Five Myths About GenAI in the Enterprise," which is probably the most wilting takedown of this movement I've ever seen:
- AI Will Replace Most Jobs in the Next Few Years → Research found limited layoffs from GenAI, and only in industries that are already affected significantly by AI. There is no consensus among executives as to hiring levels over the next 3-5 years.
- Generative AI is Transforming Business → Adoption is high, but transformation is rare. Only 5% of enterprises have AI tools integrated in workflows at scale and 7 of 9 sectors show no real structural change.
1. Editor's note: Thank you! I made this exact point in February.
- Enterprises are slow in adopting new tech → Enterprises are extremely eager to adopt AI and 90% have seriously explored buying an AI solution.
- The biggest thing holding back AI is model quality, legal, data, risk → What's really holding it back is that most AI tools don't learn and don’t integrate well into workflows.
1. Editor's note: I really do love "the thing that's holding AI back is that it sucks."
- The best enterprises are building their own tools → Internal builds fail twice as often.These are brutal, dispassionate points that directly deal with the most common boosterisms. Generative AI isn't transforming anything, AI isn't replacing anyone, enterprises are trying to adopt generative AI but it doesn't fucking work, and the thing holding back AI is the fact it doesn't fucking work. This isn't a case where "the enterprise" is suddenly going to save these companies, because the enterprise already tried, and it isn't working.
An incorrect read of the study has been that the "learning gap" that makes these things less useful, when the study actually says that "...the fundamental gap that defines the GenAI divide [is that users resist tools that don't adapt, model quality fails without context, and UX suffers when systems can't remember." This isn't something you learn your way out of. The products don't do what they're meant to do, and people are realizing it.
Nevertheless, boosters will still find a way to twist this study to mean something else. They'll claim that AI is still early, that the opportunity is still there, that we "didn't confirm that the internet or smartphones were productivity boosting," or that we're in "the early days" of AI, somehow, three years and hundreds of billions and thousands of articles in.
I'm tired of having the same arguments with these people, and I'm sure you are too. No matter how much blindly obvious evidence there is to the contrary they will find ways to ignore it. They continually make smug comments about people "wishing things would be bad" or suggesting you are stupid — and yes, that is their belief! — for not believing generative AI is disruptive.
Today, I’m going to give you the tools to fight back against the AI boosters in your life. I’m going to go into the generalities of the booster movement — the way they argue, the tropes they cling to, and the ways in which they use your own self-doubt against you.
They’re your buddy, your boss, a man in a gingham shirt at Epic Steakhouse who won't leave you the fuck alone, a Redditor, a writer, a founder or a simple con artist — whoever the booster in your life is, I want you to have the words to fight them with.
There Is No AI Revolution
Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei have used a compliant media and braindead i…Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
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It's times like this I wonder about the like/dislike paradigm I.E. "I like/dislike knowing this and/or appreciate the perceived reputability of the source" vs. "This is good news/I fucking hate this."
This one just got a "I fucking hate this" from me.
More of the first, but not exactly. It's "Other people should see and know about this too" and "This isn't worth anybody's time/is factually wrong and shouldn't have been posted."
Because that's what upvoting does, makes it higher in the page so more people are able to see it.
Langsam wird’s später im Sommer – aber noch lange nicht leiser.
Diesmal übernehmen Ursula, Gümix und Andreas Weisz die musikalische Regie, und vertonen den Sonnenuntergang und die Nacht mit organischen Beats und satten Bässen.
Der Altarm leuchtet, der Bass rollt, der Abend gehört euch.
Eintritt frei = Spende willkommen. Wer kann, der gibt – wer nicht kann, tanzt trotzdem mit.
Kommen, lauschen, treiben lassen.
How To Argue With An AI Booster
In the last two years I've written no less than 500,000 words, with many of them dedicated to breaking both existent and previous myths about the state of technology and the tech industry itself. While I feel no resentment — I really enjoy writing, and feel privileged to be able to write about this and make money doing so — I do feel that there is a massive double standard between those perceived as "skeptics" and "optimists."To be skeptical of AI is to commit yourself to near-constant demands to prove yourself, and endless nags of "but what about?" with each one — no matter how small — presented as a fact that defeats any points you may have. Conversely, being an "optimist" allows you to take things like AI 2027 — which I will fucking get to — seriously to the point that you can write an entire feature about fan fiction in the New York Times and nobody will bat an eyelid.
In any case, things are beginning to fall apart. Two of the actual reporters at the New York Times (rather than a "columnist") reported out last week that Meta is yet again "restructuring" its AI department for the fourth time, and that it’s considering "downsizing the A.I. division overall," which sure doesn't seem like something you'd do if you thought AI was the future.
Meanwhile, the markets are also thoroughly spooked by an MIT study covered by Fortune that found that 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing, and though MIT NANDA has now replaced the link to the study with a Google Form to request access, you can find the full PDF here, in the kind of move that screams "PR firm wants to try and set up interviews." Not for me, thanks!
In any case, the report is actually grimmer than Fortune made it sound, saying that "95% of organizations are getting zero return [on generative AI]." The report says that "adoption is high, but transformation is low," adding that "...few industries show the deep structural shifts associated with past general-purpose technologies such as new market leaders, disrupted business models, or measurable changes in customer behavior."
Yet the most damning part was the "Five Myths About GenAI in the Enterprise," which is probably the most wilting takedown of this movement I've ever seen:
- AI Will Replace Most Jobs in the Next Few Years → Research found limited layoffs from GenAI, and only in industries that are already affected significantly by AI. There is no consensus among executives as to hiring levels over the next 3-5 years.
- Generative AI is Transforming Business → Adoption is high, but transformation is rare. Only 5% of enterprises have AI tools integrated in workflows at scale and 7 of 9 sectors show no real structural change.
1. Editor's note: Thank you! I made this exact point in February.
- Enterprises are slow in adopting new tech → Enterprises are extremely eager to adopt AI and 90% have seriously explored buying an AI solution.
- The biggest thing holding back AI is model quality, legal, data, risk → What's really holding it back is that most AI tools don't learn and don’t integrate well into workflows.
1. Editor's note: I really do love "the thing that's holding AI back is that it sucks."
- The best enterprises are building their own tools → Internal builds fail twice as often.These are brutal, dispassionate points that directly deal with the most common boosterisms. Generative AI isn't transforming anything, AI isn't replacing anyone, enterprises are trying to adopt generative AI but it doesn't fucking work, and the thing holding back AI is the fact it doesn't fucking work. This isn't a case where "the enterprise" is suddenly going to save these companies, because the enterprise already tried, and it isn't working.
An incorrect read of the study has been that the "learning gap" that makes these things less useful, when the study actually says that "...the fundamental gap that defines the GenAI divide [is that users resist tools that don't adapt, model quality fails without context, and UX suffers when systems can't remember." This isn't something you learn your way out of. The products don't do what they're meant to do, and people are realizing it.
Nevertheless, boosters will still find a way to twist this study to mean something else. They'll claim that AI is still early, that the opportunity is still there, that we "didn't confirm that the internet or smartphones were productivity boosting," or that we're in "the early days" of AI, somehow, three years and hundreds of billions and thousands of articles in.
I'm tired of having the same arguments with these people, and I'm sure you are too. No matter how much blindly obvious evidence there is to the contrary they will find ways to ignore it. They continually make smug comments about people "wishing things would be bad" or suggesting you are stupid — and yes, that is their belief! — for not believing generative AI is disruptive.
Today, I’m going to give you the tools to fight back against the AI boosters in your life. I’m going to go into the generalities of the booster movement — the way they argue, the tropes they cling to, and the ways in which they use your own self-doubt against you.
They’re your buddy, your boss, a man in a gingham shirt at Epic Steakhouse who won't leave you the fuck alone, a Redditor, a writer, a founder or a simple con artist — whoever the booster in your life is, I want you to have the words to fight them with.
There Is No AI Revolution
Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei have used a compliant media and braindead i…Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
47 State and Territory Attorneys General Urge Tech and Payment Platforms to Address Deepfake Exploitation
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State and Territory Attorneys General Urge Tech and Payment Platforms to Address Deepfake Exploitation - National Association of Attorneys General
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Donald Trump's 50% tariff on India kicks in as PM Modi urges self-reliance
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Donald Trump: PM Modi says make and spend in India as 50% tariffs kick in
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Nvidia's quarterly report will gauge the temperature of the AI craze
Artificial intelligence bellwether Nvidia is poised to release a quarterly report that’s expected provide a better sense about whether the stock market has been riding on an overhyped bubble or whether it’s being propelled by a technological boom that’s still gathering momentum
Nvidia's quarterly report will gauge the temperature of the AI craze
Artificial intelligence bellwether Nvidia is poised to release a quarterly report that’s expected provide a better sense about whether the stock market has been riding on an overhyped bubble or whether it’s being propelled by a technological boom tha…Michael Liedtke (The Independent)
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Attempt to partner African countries with Japanese cities triggers xenophobic backlash
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French, German and Polish leaders head to Moldova to denounce Russian 'interference' ahead of vote
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How Mexico lifted 13.4 million out of poverty in six years
Rather than poverty reduction stemming from economic growth, it has been achieved through a redistribution of resources.
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EU-backed Libyan patrol boat fires hundreds of rounds onto rescue vessel, says NGO
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You Don’t Actually Own That Movie You Just “Bought.” A New Class Action Lawsuit Targets Amazon
A suit challenges Prime Video telling people they can "buy" a movie when they're purchasing a license to watch it for a period of time.
[Article] Luck Shouldn’t Determine Our Fates
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DNC Votes Down Resolution Calling for Israeli Arms Embargo to Halt US Complicity in Gaza Genocide
DNC rejects resolution on military aid to Israel amid Gaza famine, sparking backlash. Task force formed for further discussion.
DNC Votes Down Resolution Calling for Israeli Arms Embargo to Halt US Complicity in Gaza Genocide
"It's another sign of just how out of touch Democratic Party leadership is today," said one supporter of the resolution.brad-reed (Common Dreams)
Rights group says Israeli actions in Lebanon constitute potential war crimes
The Israeli military’s extensive destruction of civilian property and agricultural land across southern Lebanon must be investigated as war crimes, Amnesty International said in a new research briefing released on Tuesday.
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Rights group says Israeli actions in Lebanon constitute potential war crimes
The Israeli military’s extensive destruction of civilian property and agricultural land across southern Lebanon must be investigated as war crimes, Amnesty International said in a new research briefin...Ishika Tanwar | The West Bengal National U. of Juridical Sciences, IN (- JURIST - News)
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'This is Criminal': Shock Whistleblower Report Claims DOGE Put Americans' Social Security Data at Risk
Whistleblower alleges Department of Government Efficiency risked Americans' Social Security data by uploading to vulnerable cloud server.
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DOGE officials have been responsible for "serious data security lapses" that risk the safety "of over 300 million Americans' Social Security data," the whistleblower complaint said.brad-reed (Common Dreams)
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Book authors settle copyright lawsuit with AI company Anthropic
A group of book authors has reached a settlement with AI company Anthropic after suing for copyright infringement.
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Parents sue OpenAI over ChatGPT's role in son's suicide
Before sixteen-year-old Adam Raine died by suicide, he had spent months telling ChatGPT about his plans to end his life.
Grocery Chains Are Passing Trump Tariff Costs on to US Consumers With Higher Prices: Report
As 90% of Americans say grocery prices are a major source of stress, the nation's top grocery chains have said they're passing the cost of Trump's tariffs onto consumers, according to a new report.
Grocery Chains Are Passing Trump Tariff Costs on to US Consumers With Higher Prices: Report
"Reckless tariff policy is wreaking warrantless chaos on our economy, with grocery giants shifting market uncertainty onto consumers," said Accountable.US president Caroline Ciccone.stephen-prager (Common Dreams)
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With DC Law Enforcement Under His Control, Trump Says Death Penalty Coming Back
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German court rules Apple can't say Watches 'carbon neutral'
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US soybean farmers can't afford trade war with China, warns ASA
Historically, China has been the top buyer of US soybeans by “a staggering margin,” says the American Soybean Association. This year, with US soybeans facing retaliatory tariffs amid the ongoing trade war, China is going elsewhere.In a letter urging President Trump to cut a deal with China that removes China’s retaliatory duties and includes “significant soybean purchase commitments,” the ASA says China “currently has zero new crop export orders for US soybeans on the books for marketing year 2025/26.”
US soybean farmers can't afford trade war with China, warns ASA
American soybean farmers have urged President Trump to cut a deal with China that removes retaliatory duties on US soybeans.Elaine Watson (AgFunderNews)
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The Madness of Cars
The Madness of Cars
The strangest things we do are also the things we think least about—for example, drinking cows’ milk, handing our children over into the care of paid strangers, going to gyms, wearing neckties, enjoying war as spectator sport, and shaving.Peter Hitchens (Compact)
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Le antiche mappe a rilievo, ligneo ausilio alla navigazione dei popoli della Groenlandia - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Le antiche mappe a rilievo, ligneo ausilio alla navigazione dei popoli della Groenlandia - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Orientandomi soltanto tramite la luce tenue della Luna, conduco la mia barca appesantita dalle foche uccise in mezzo ai vortici costieri che proteggono l’ingresso della zona sicura.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
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I've been lurking on r/thedeprogram for about two years and have seen Smith's opinions on landlords there multiple times, and upvoted into the ~~thousands~~. Pretty sure you don't know what you're talking about.
Edit: high hundreds, not thousands.
Sadly, my internet connection where I'm at is abysmal and lemmy doesn't let me upload some examples. Fun fact though: OP's meme was posted on theDeprogram two years ago.
Trump is waging war on wind energy. Consumers and investors face the costs | The president’s stop-work order for a massive wind power project in New England threatens higher bills and power shortages.
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I'll note that Trump took a billion-dollar bribe from the fossil fuels industry promising to do this kind of thing.
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in reply to SSUPII • • •Insidious language to imply people who restrict one type of information is bad and anti humanity, while restricting information you classify as 'recreational' - that still provides educational background, cultural identity, a sense of shared community and media with friends, and that is literally out of reach for many poor people in first world countries or most people in third world countries, that do not have libraries, or the funds to buy books and videos - or even the devices to play videos on - no, it's 'protecting' the poor rich billionaire authors who live in their mansions because they wrote a book about a wizard they don't want people to read without giving them even more money to attack trans people with.
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in reply to TheLeadenSea • • •Agree.
Disagree.
Whn a person pirates, they usually do it for a) themselves, b) their family or c) a close friend. Some might share on a larger basis.
And other than that, they also usually use it for a) educational or b) entertainment purposes.
For companies, it's alsmost always d) On a larger basis and c) commercially.
As most licences and contracts differentiate the two uses, so should the law.
The fact that I can download a book online and read it (sneakily, and technically illegally) doesn't mean that if I became an AI LLC I could download it, along with thousands of others, to then sell as my AI's "knowledge".
Making that an AI's knowledge is "storing in a retrieval system" and commercial use isn't a free use criterion.
The true problem with (common law) copyright is the fact that it can be bought and sold. Or rather, the author doesn't own it - the publisher does. Which goes against the initial idea of the author getting dividends from their works.