Comment by bodiekane
9 months ago
It's today and everyone on HN still should side with them.
It's a travesty that we let the RIAA and MPAA sue defenseless kids and elderly for impossibly large sums, forced them to settle out of court to avoid expensive legal fees, and then use those acts of terrorism to establish the insane idea that filesharing was tantamount to "theft" or should be restricted.
I hope Meta wins. I hope we see a reversal of the attacks on fair use and the end of abusive fraudulent DMCA takedowns, and I'm happy to finally have a powerful ally in the resistance against oppression from the copyright cartel.
Okay so here’s the issue for me. I totally hate copyright, and think it should be abolished or heavily reduced. At the same time, I hate Facebook for its ruthlessly immoral business practices. Should I be happy that Facebook gets to fuck over a bunch of authors because it’s a big, successful company rather than joe schmoe? Does the face they’re ignoring a law I don’t happen to like make it fine that the trillion dollar company can ignore the justice system and do whatever? They aren’t your friend; if they can they’ll change the law to make it specifically only legal when training models.