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I "pirated" (read) books to train myself. I guess I owe authors a percentage of my income now.
by stackedinserter 2y ago
I "pirated" (read) books to train myself. I guess I owe authors a percentage of my income now.
- HPsquared 2y agoYou paid for those books though, presumably.
- intrasight 2y agoWhat if you borrowed and read your friends book? https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
- stackedinserter 2y agoYes, I paid for some. Your point is...?
- binarymax 2y agoLet’s look at this like food, instead of knowledge. You ate a donut, and you got energy. Maybe you’ve eaten 5 donuts per year, for 20 years…so a hundred donuts. Maybe you didn’t pay for all of them, you got some at work or at a friends house. They stole a billion donuts.
- sorokod 2y agoTIL donut https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DONUT https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DONUT
- WillPostForFood 2y agoThey stole a billion donuts. There thousands of posts on HN defending digital piracy, mocking the government and groups like the RIAA that make poor analogies to theft of physical goods.
- robjan 2y agoThese donuts can be replicated an unlimited number of times for free without depriving the creator of the donuts of their donuts. The analogy doesn't work. The real question is whether the value of these donuts is diminished by being ingested by the AI and it's still not clear.
- stackedinserter 2y agoOk I got it, I owe to donut vendors too.