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Strike 3, the studio involved, files more lawsuits in the USA than anyone else. I think that makes them the biggest Copyright Trolls of all time. They run the
by hackingonempty 22d ago
Strike 3, the studio involved, files more lawsuits in the USA than anyone else. I think that makes them the biggest Copyright Trolls of all time. They run their own BitTorrent monitoring operation.
- fn-mote 22d agoThe company that owns the copyright should be allowed to enforce it. I don't see how that can be called trolling.
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- mullingitover 22d agoMeta, the other company involved, engaged in industrial scale piracy in pursuit of training data[1]. Let me break out the world's tiniest violin for them. [1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-o...
- sureMan6 22d agoThey downloaded pdfs (shock and horror) to create and publish the first open weights LLM Your ethics shouldn't be dictated by US copyright law
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- ceejayoz 22d ago> Your ethics shouldn't be dictated by US copyright law If your ethics deem Meta ethical, they probably need recalibrating.
- s1artibartfast 22d agoActor and action conflation is incredibly common these days. If someone is bad and worth condemnation, all their actions must also be bad.
- throwway120385 22d agoIt's more likely that their motivation was bad.
- s1artibartfast 22d agoLike they wanted Llama to kill babies, or what?
- ceejayoz 22d agohttps://twitter.com/dril/status/831805955402776576 https://twitter.com/dril/status/831805955402776576
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- nkrisc 22d agoIf a bad actor’s actions appear good, skepticism is warranted.
- soulofmischief 22d agoThe actor is bad, the deed is good. Though, the open sourcing of llama 2 and beyond was pushed by Yann Lecun and others, some of whom have moved on from the company. Zuckerberg supports the AI initiatives but he's hardly leading them himself.
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- doc_ick 22d agoAre you saying laws shouldn’t restrict any company that give out an open source next-token iterator? I think that’s more hopium ethics.
- overfeed 22d ago> Your ethics shouldn't be dictated by US copyright law Corporate lawlessness has no good outcomes for humans.
- efficax 22d agoi don't necessarily disagree but others have been jailed for this activity (or like aaron swarz, driven to suicide)
- tencentshill 22d agoFantastic, so we win either way