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It's amazing that people have somehow been convinced that it's sane not only to throw others in prison for copying files but also to have special police for it.





They've been getting away with it for ages. The RIAA even hired a bunch of ex-cops to act as goons, impersonate the FBI, and go on raids

https://web.archive.org/web/20040209170528/http://www.laweek...

I swear I've seen photos of them in their RIAA jackets too, but I can't seem to find any at the moment


Unless big tech does it I guess

That's easy: government should serve the needs of people, not companies.

It's not hypocritical to want a different set of rules for companies.


> a different set of rules for companies

That is sort of the problem we find ourselves in.


"It's not copyright infringement! I'm just using it to train my neural networks with the information!"

This quote is perfectly constructed to underline the hypocrisy considering this case is about pirating educational material. If pirating information is allowed when that neural network you are training is some LLM, why shouldn't it be allowed when that neural network is a human brain?

Human brains are not created and owned solely by companies

"fair use" for corporations.

I had the same thought. Those people could be put to so much better use, solving real problems that everyday people have.

> Those people could be put to so much better use, solving real problems that everyday people have.

You can apply that logic to large swathe of well paid jobs.


This is why an economic crash is not necessarily a bad thing in the long run. It shatters calcified assumptions about what labor is valuable and presents an opportunity to redefine them. We keep putting the next one off, and the people working jobs that "should" have gone away keep moving forward in their careers, gaining seniority and higher salaries doing varyingly terrible and unnecessary work.

The cyberpunk dystopia that 80s fiction authors prepared [some of] us for.

Drug and Copyright Enforcement Agency?

I always thought that one reason to go after marijuana was that it was something that one could easily "grow at home" -- eg, make a copy. Alcohol and hard drugs typically required a lot of equipment or expertise.

..and in a dystopian future there will be an agency to remove any unauthorized knowledge (gained from pirated sources) from ones' brain.


>..and in a dystopian future there will be an agency to remove any unauthorized knowledge (gained from pirated sources) from ones' brain.

as a preview - the similar is going to happen to the LLMs soon. Actually with growth of LLMs it may become unimportant what is in the actual biological brain of its user.


You would think we as a society should crack down harder on theft and robbery but here we are subsiding the rich on copyright laws



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