3 ms·
I see you didn't grow up cracking apps and games, this is quite easy with a hex editor and bintools. Well, until codesigning came along, but that doesn't seem r
by throwaway27448 3mo ago
I see you didn't grow up cracking apps and games, this is quite easy with a hex editor and bintools. Well, until codesigning came along, but that doesn't seem relevant to this analogy.
- deleted 3mo ago[deleted]
- kennywinker 3mo agoCracking games is and was illegal. Fine tuning an open weight model isn’t. Well, not yet anyway
- throwaway27448 3mo ago> Cracking games is and was illegal. Only distribution.
- kennywinker 3mo agoDon’t think that’s correct, i think creating the cracked version of a piece of software is infringement of copyright even without distribution. But even if distribution is required to trigger the law - you are free to distribute fine-tunes of most open weight models.
- selfhoster11 3mo agoInteroperability clause in the EU might make it legal? Not sure.
- TaLiTr 3mo ago> creating the cracked version of a piece of software is infringement Depending where you are it might be "DRM circumvention" all the way up to some bollocks hacking charge. It's pretty murky in places because lots of copyright laws protect DRM but also have carve-outs for personal backups.
- kennywinker 3mo agoI think cracking might fall under “derivative work”, but idk
- amelius 3mo agoThe big AI companies have shown us that caring about copyright is apparently for losers.
- shwaj 3mo agoI didn’t grow up with that hobby. The point stands anyway. Cracking a binary circumvents authorization to provide full access to functionality the program already has. That’s very different from modifying the program to add new features.
- throwaway27448 3mo agoNot really. It's a social structure that separates these two things, and a social structure nobody really needs to recognize.