Comment by gbacon

7 months ago

Who is the victim, and how was that person not made whole?

The copyright holder. That person was not made whole because of the time value of money. I stole $1000 from you in January and returned it to you in June: why should you happily give me a zero interest loan?

  • No royalty contract is getting an author a thousand bucks per sale. If you have to wildly exaggerate to make your point, then the point isn’t compelling.

    Books have a resale market. Every “lost sale” isn’t necessarily of a new purchase from a bookstore or Amazon.

    Copyright has a place. Rent-seeking authors attacking LLM owners is not a sympathetic case. Said authors are demanding to have their ideas relegated to unknown backwaters. It makes the authors worse off. It makes the community poorer. Cui bono?