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> Why is it one or the other? Because that's how it works in reality. Once the copyright holders get their teeth in something, it gets paywalled. For instanc
by xscott 1y ago
> Why is it one or the other?
Because that's how it works in reality. Once the copyright holders get their teeth in something, it gets paywalled. For instance, poor people don't have (free/legal/easy) access to lots of research papers/articles which were paid for with government grants. And copyright industry associations (MPAA, RIAA, CCC, AAP, ...) lobby to extend the laws so that creative works take lifetimes to enter the public domain.
You think you're arguing in favor of the little guy who made a series of blog posts or digital art? That's naive.
> My point is simply that in building the models they have to respect the current laws
So go enforce those laws. The rent seekers will thank you.
- DrScientist 1y ago> So go enforce those laws. The rent seekers will thank you. Seems you have bought into the idea idea that companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are the poor little guys. Wow. What we are talking about here is certain companies trying to gain a defacto monopoly on the sum of human knowledge - without paying any of those people who built it in the first place. This is the real story. Now it may well be their moat isn't as big as they thought it was and the greedy investors trying to do this heist will fail - but that's what they are attempting - and you are cheer leading for it.