Just wanted to respond to this point as well, to say that while this is a logically consistent stance, painting all hackers as pirates is unfair. Even Aaron Sw

Just wanted to respond to this point as well, to say that while this is a logically consistent stance, painting all hackers as pirates is unfair. Even Aaron Swartz, the subject of this post, made a distinction (both in his writing/talks and his actions) between academic, scientific, and judicial articles, which he believed should be free for everyone, and other copyrighted content such as books and movies. He seemed to take a softer stance on the latter. I am not a copyright zealot by any means, but I’m trying to keep an open mind regarding the seemingly knee-jerk “abolish all copyright” takes from certain people in the AI sphere.