I remember pleas and slogans of "data wants to be free!" and a generalized public attitude of down with all copyrights and patents. Remember Napster? I find it hard to not think the attitude now is merely the public echoing what "big journalism" is telling them to parrot. I'm so disillusioned.
I’m mostly with you, I am still of that camp and I hope if we have some amazing AI tooling coming that makes humanity more efficient that we don’t get stopped by copyright of all things. That said I am irked when the scraping doesn’t respect copyright but then effort is made to protect the IP of the resulting models.
