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> There's plenty of FOSS software basically designed to violate copyright law (comic readers, home media center servers/clients, torrent clients) The key diffe
by shkkmo 3y ago
> There's plenty of FOSS software basically designed to violate copyright law (comic readers, home media center servers/clients, torrent clients)
The key difference is that those projects don't violate copyright themselves, but facilitate users doing so. If training without a license is infringement then projects that are doing so will struggle to host code/models publicly or access other parts of internet infrastructure.
- lannisterstark 3y ago>struggle to host code/models publicly or access other parts of internet infrastructure. To be fair, IPFS/Torrents/Usenet exists.
- shkkmo 3y agoYes, there are workarounds that are already used in other areas of copyright infringement. It won't stop the activity completely but will curtail the scale of that activity.