otterley

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721.
by otterley 7mo ago
> Not everyone in the world is subject to the same laws. Are you? > To say nothing of what all that means when those laws are unjust and themselves serve to trample on individuals' rights. What rights are you speaking of, exactly
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by otterley 7mo ago
> I'm not so arrogant Believing oneself to be special and above the law such that one feels justified in trampling on others' rights is textbook arrogance.
723.
by otterley 7mo ago
> Nobody's going to be seriously harmed by us pirating them, either. The logic here is quite simple: if you don't have to pay, nobody else has to pay, either, because you're not special . If nobody pays, then people who
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by otterley 7mo ago
> Because they are getting significantly bigger value out of it. Because they know ahead of time they want more of this type of content to be produced. Because they have more disposable funds. Those are reasons that someone might choose
725.
by otterley 7mo ago
You are claiming something: that the model card is not reliable, therefore it's as useful as nothing. Sowing doubt without a possible solution adds little value to the conversation. Moreover, your rebuttal is unsubstantiated.
726.
by otterley 7mo ago
Also, who is the author? He seems to have appeared from nowhere, like Satoshi Nakamoto. Maybe it’s just Claude posing as a network engineer.
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by otterley 7mo ago
No, I'm not going to do that. And here's why: because if you have an excuse, everyone has an excuse. And if everyone has an excuse, the entire system falls apart. I'll reiterate what I said above: entertainment and software a
728.
by otterley 7mo ago
So you really don't understand that it should be OK for everyone to pirate if it's OK for you? Would you ever tell someone it's not OK? If so, why? And what makes you special and different?
729.
by otterley 7mo ago
1. We don't know that. Perhaps they would pay, at a lower price. 2. If it's OK for one person not to pay, why should anyone pay?
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by otterley 7mo ago
That’s a separate issue. Real time observation is one thing. What happens with the data afterwards is another. Now, the obvious response to that is “if you’re not watching, it can’t be recorded in the first place.” But we have legitimate re
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by otterley 7mo ago
It’s a false equivalence. Passive surveillance cameras aren’t the same as having a bunch of annoying people trailing me, which gives rise to the concern for the personal safety of me and my family. So I reject the comparison.
732.
by otterley 7mo ago
But if you can excuse it for yourself, why shouldn’t the same reasoning hold for everyone else? Do you not see the slippery slope here?
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by otterley 7mo ago
> we still would be paid for the same labour even if someone...illegally have access to the software we build. Where do you think that money comes from? It comes from the licensing of the software. If everyone is pirating the software, t
734.
by otterley 7mo ago
It's a relatively new agency in name (2003), but it's not really all that new. It was formerly known as the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and U.S. Customs.
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by otterley 7mo ago
Why?
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by otterley 7mo ago
> seems reasonable for individuals to just track each other at a distance if we're all okay with your proposed path. They often do. What am I gonna do, run up to anyone who's taking cell phone videos that might have me in it an
737.
by otterley 7mo ago
You're bootstrapping your argument with an assumption that there's something to account for. Public activities are public. You're shifting the accountability from the actor to the observer.
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by otterley 7mo ago
They're not being tracked at all times in real life. They're potentially being tracked in public . I get that some people have a desire for privacy in public. And I'm even sympathetic to it. However, with the exception of
739.
by otterley 7mo ago
Intimidation and threatening behavior. Context matters.
740.
by otterley 7mo ago
Eat your heart out. It's also a completely legitimate law enforcement technique.
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by otterley 7mo ago
Should I be concerned that you're stalking me, or that you know this information? The former is illegal, the latter is not.
742.
by otterley 7mo ago
Should I be concerned that you're stalking me, or that you know this information? The former is illegal, the latter is not.
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by otterley 7mo ago
> Your data should be an extension of your home, even if it's held by another company. Nice idea, but at least in the U.S. (with the lone exception of LE obtaining cell phone location records), courts have consistently held that if
744.
by otterley 7mo ago
Why do people consistently and falsely believe that they have privacy in public settings? You are literally out in public. If you don't want your behavior in public to be observed, then either don't behave in such a way that you w
745.
by otterley 7mo ago
Well, most software engineers aren't fortunate enough to be insulated from the impact of copyright infringement. The reality is that a lot of us--maybe not you personally, but possibly even your friends and neighbors--put food on the t
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by otterley 7mo ago
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by otterley 7mo ago
I’m aware of how they rationalize it, and it’s bullshit. They compare themselves to a router that passes through packets unmolested. But that argument is trivially refuted by the fact that their IPs are what their customers' DNS querie
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by otterley 7mo ago
> They wrote them out. Convenience is not a valid reason to violate others' rights. > there is no real loss to anyone if you consume an illegal copy. There is a real loss: The owner isn’t getting paid when people consume their pr
749.
by otterley 7mo ago
What are these "valid arguments for piracy" you refer to? Content isn't food, shelter, or clothing. It's a "nice to have" in one's life. It's literally entertainment.
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by otterley 7mo ago
DMCA notices (and whatever the EU equivalents are) are designed to avoid the need for court orders. Every service provider that sends content is obligated by law to cease sending the content upon receipt of that notification. CF ignores the

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