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> Too many people are focused on what's legal. It's fine to think of, but law is the last stop before the breakdown of society. Microsoft skipped society and we
by nonbirithm 4y ago
> Too many people are focused on what's legal. It's fine to think of, but law is the last stop before the breakdown of society. Microsoft skipped society and went straight to sparking an inevitable test of and possible reshaping of copyright law.
Maybe it's illuminating of a trait of human nature. On the stable diffusion webui repo many people have stated that they would continue to use the code even if it were stolen or unlicensed. These people aren't a part of a corporation; they are average netizens handed a technology essentially indistinguishable from magic with nothing in place to prevent its use.
If the tech is simply so impeccable as to be irresistible then a higher order framework needs to be in place to teach people not to bite because they will be bitten back.
- Siira 4y agoWhen someone presents some information publicly, copying it is a natural right. Copyright can only be legitimized as the state sponsoring short-term monopolies in select areas to subsidize industries that benefit the public (from receiving the said subsidies). Obviously, a technology that let’s the public creative the desired output with little cost is the sort of thing that can eliminate the need for such subsidization in the first place.