Comment by locknitpicker
12 hours ago
> It would have been ok if stealing/sharing copyrighted work was heavily normalized, but no, a lot of people have gone to prison for simply pirating DVDs and CDs and now you're telling me it's somehow ok if a corporation does it?
There is no such thing as "stealing" copyrighted work. Either you have unauthorized access and/or distribution, or you don't.
Unauthorized access to copyrighted work is perfectly legal in a big chunk of the world, including western Europe. Read up on the french tradition of copyright law, particularly the provisions for personal use.
This brings us to how "people have gone to prison for simply pirating DVDs and CDs". The bulk of the cases were focused on mass commercial distribution of verbatim copies of third-party content. I'm talking about DVD-burning factories.
>There is no such thing as "stealing" copyrighted work
Maybe true in places with different cultural values like China or India.
However, piracy differs from the theft-of-service data scrapers use while ignoring EULA, site usage terms, and robot exclusion standards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft_of_services
Getting emotionally invested in "AI" fantasy marketing is irrational. Have a wonderful day =3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTAwjprV3b4
> Maybe true in places with different cultural values like China or India.
No, this is a core trait of the whole concept of copyright.
Copyright is a legal tool to allow authors to claim the exclusive right to monetize their work. But from it's inception this same legal tool is designed to ensure the public has the right to access said copyrighted works without authorization, including but not limited to the right to the unauthorized access for personal use and how public domain is extended to all works.
This notion originates from France's copyright law, from which all copyright laws in the world directly or indirectly comes from. We are talking about centuries of legal history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_France
I was alluding to the lack of Software Patent and Copyright enforcement in some jurisdictions, and hoping people would connect the issue of isomorphic plagiarism on their own.
We are in the age of "Napster" for nonsense, and "free" stuff other people made is certainly a crowd-pleaser. =3