The is a similar argument used to argue against people stealing music and movies — people would pirate content that someone else invested money to create. But t

The is a similar argument used to argue against people stealing music and movies — people would pirate content that someone else invested money to create. But the dominant attitude prior to streaming ubiquitousness, among the tech “information should be free crowd” was that torrents of copyright material were perfectly fine. This is no different. But it is different — when it’s your resources that are being stolen/misused/etc. My opinion is that if you are building a business that relies on someone else’s creation — that company should be paid. This isn’t just about “AI” companies — but all sorts of companies that essentially scour the web to repackage someone else’s data. To me this also includes those paywall elimination tools — even the “non profits” should pay — even if their motives are non-profit, they still have revenue. (A charity stealing food from the grocery store is wrong, a grocery store donating to a charity is a different thing.) However another aspect of this is government data and data created with government funds — scientific research for example. If a government grant paid for the research, I shouldn’t have to pay Nature to access it. If that breaks the academic publishing model — good. It’s already broken. We shouldn’t have to pay private companies to access public records, lawsuit filings, etc.