Eric Schmidt said so, and it caused a giant uproar. To me, it's just "more of the same", but apparently he said the quiet part out loud, which was somehow verb

Eric Schmidt said so, and it caused a giant uproar. To me, it's just "more of the same", but apparently he said the quiet part out loud, which was somehow verboten. (Edit to add: I'm not saying "I think this is okay", but rather "this is Standard Operating Procedure for startups" -- even Reddit was seeded with fake accounts and content, to give the appearance of an active online community. This sort of hustle is a core part of SV culture, and I don't think this is going to change in a hurry.) Excerpt: ...in the example that I gave of the TikTok competitor, and by the way, I was not arguing that you should illegally steal everybody's music. What you would do if you're a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, which hopefully all of you will be, is if it took off, then you'd hire a whole bunch of lawyers to go clean the mess up, right? But if nobody uses your product, it doesn't matter that you stole all the content.