Except this analogy doesn't really work because in #piracy, the small authors still get a chance at some compensation via recognition of their works. And as that work gets more known and popular outside of the artist's intended and known avenues, the losses they got from each unauthorized copy will get covered eventually by those who just have learned about their work and have the ability to pay for it. As well as those who pirated the work from years before (probably when they're still a kid who can't really pay) and now finally purchases a copy legally (e.g. they're now an adult and have a working credit/debit card)
You can't say the same of #AIart / #AIscraping which sucks off from tens of hundred thousands of artists, a lot of whom are probably not well-known to begin with and will not get any people interested in their works via your big #LLMs and #AI. :seija_coffee:
As someone who grew up poor and with very little access to global culture, I shake my head sadly with those people who talk about #AIArt with the same moralism people were making against #piracy.
This didn't work then, it won't work now. People without money or time can't and won't support artists. If their only option is to use ML tools to create and share what is in their brain, they will do that instead.
All the arguments against this are privileged "you wouldn't download a car" territory
I've just started "getting used to not owning" Ubisoft games.🖕
I had about 13 games on it, but they were all over 5+ years old and havent been played in at least that time. I'll pirate them if I want to play them again.
It says "You've successfully started closing your account" because I can apparently cancel it within 30 days. There's no reason for me to do that.
#Meta#AI#GenerativeAI#Copyright#Llama#LLMs#AITraining#Piracy: "These are noteworthy developments but not all complaints can be resolved with promises. Several lawsuits against OpenAI and Meta remain ongoing, accusing the companies of using the Books3 dataset to train their models.
While OpenAI and Meta are very cautious about discussing the subject in public, Meta provided more context in a California federal court this week.
Responding to a lawsuit from writer/comedian Sarah Silverman, author Richard Kadrey, and other rights holders, the tech giant admits that “portions of Books3” were used to train the Llama AI model before its public release.
“Meta admits that it used portions of the Books3 dataset, among many other materials, to train Llama 1 and Llama 2,” Meta writes in its answer."
Hot take: if it is impossible to create #AI tools without copyrighted material, what you do is ask creators for their permission to use said material then compensate and credit them appropriately. You do NOT steal the material and then ask forgiveness later. That is #Piracy
Was reminded about the X-Men Animated Series from the 90s. Looked it up and they haven’t put these out on DVD or BR. May need to try and find it on the Interwebz because I couldn’t pay for it even if I wanted to; it’s not available. How are amazing shows like this getting preserved?
xbox game pass has hundreds of £ worth of games for £12.99 a month, value for money imo and if a game you like is removed from game pass, at least you can purchase it knowing you like it and will play it
spotify has unlimited music except maybe obscure stuff you’ll have to find elsewhere such as youtube, it costs £10.99 a month and you have no ads, can listen to mostly every album you’d want. The cons are that Spotify gives literal pennies to artists, and supports joe rogan etc but yea it’s convenient and good value I’d say
Amazon prime video gives you movies and shows on prime for £14.99.. and that’s where the good things end
They will also be asking you to pay an extra £2.99 to remove ads when watching content, totalling the amount you pay per month to about £18 per month. They also will ask you to get a free trial of paramount+ or crunchyroll if you want to watch any content on those platforms. Jeff Bezos is literally sticking his middle finger up at you while he rakes in more money for his new yacht or million dollar mansion or whatever.
Xbox game pass, Spotify and steam are successful because they provide value for money and convenience. Sure, netflix/disney/amazon is just right there on your TV for most people, so convenience yes. But if you have to pay more money for no ads then yea, doesn’t seem great. Plus you have to pay more if you want 4K, at least for netflix I know that.
I wonder why people will pirate stuff instead of watching things legit 🤔 seems obvious to me.
What a rabbit hole, integrating Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Deluge and Jellyfin to completely automate the tracking, sorting, naming and searching of my entire media library.
Adblockers are legal, German courts ruled. Their argument: users not only have the right to receive information but also to refuse it.
That sounds about right. It'd be positively dystopian if companies can claim the right to force-feed information. A win for internet user freedom :).
One of the downsides of the ruling is that a company can exclude users with an activated adblocker from accessing its website. @fsfe wrote an interesting article about the case https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20231220-01.en.html
If all I gotta do is flash flesh or hole to get Zuck fucked, great.
That Genocidist is not worth my time. Nor are his enablers.
As piracy is a radical act of the preservation of art, so too is Christian/normie defined "indecency" a radical act of preserving actual decency & integrity.
Oh and solidarity with my sex worker siings out there.
#CAIRO — After a long journey from #Gaza, more than 100 American citizens and their families have entered #Egypt through the #RafahCrossing. Jonathan Webster, the #USEmbassy in Cairo's consul general, said some of those families are telling him they ran out of food and water during their journeys. #Israel
Dr Ng said #Singapore is contributing to the coalition operation in the #RedSea – launched by the #US on Dec 19, 2023 – as it aligns with the three principles of maritime security cooperation that the Republic articulated at the Shangri-La Dialogue in 2005 when the #MalaccaStrait and #SingaporeStrait were threatened by #piracy and sea robbery. #Houthi#Israel
‘The Last of Us’ Is The Most Pirated TV Show of 2023 (torrentfreak.com)
HBO's 'The Last of Us' is the most-pirated TV show released in 2023, taking over the title from ‘House of the Dragon’.