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People were saying "nobody's gonna actually sue you for downloading Metallica songs"

And for 99.99% of people this was true. The overwhelming majority of people actually doing piracy went untouched. And even the artists were forced to concede, by the end, that they got suckered by a constellation of shady agents and lawyers who took them for a ride.

the company that owns Monster cables is infamous for suing small businesses that have Monster in the name even if there's no possible way anyone could get their business confused with their company.

As someone who does not own a small business, I do not care.

Loved this episode of E1

Americans in the impossible position of choosing between

• Kill more brown people

• Make money shipping another cargo container full of novelty sex asses

The correct angle should be forcing all generative AI and its products to be public domain

None of these parties want to expand public domain, though. So that's not on the table.

This is purely a tug of war between "disruptor" tech industry piracy that's supposed to be Too Big To Fail and legacy media that would drag us back to flip books and cave paintings if they thought it would benefit the bottom line.

It isn't, though.

I'm an incredibly small bean, policing data at this scale is borderline impossible, and we already demonstrated (via RIAA/MPAA wack-a-mole enforcement efforts) that this isn't profitable in any meaningful sense.

The only people who really benefit from this kind of legislation are Mega-Corps who want to compel one another at some macro level.

The real end goal here is to force OpenAI to purge it's model of images captured from Marvel or Disney or some WB property. Nobody is coming for your home rolled desktop image generator.

History started on October 7th

Israel firing sniper rounds and launching drone strikes into Gaza City isn't terrorism, it's Smart Data Driven Policing

The 90s Are Alive Again

Hi mom!

Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1999

Teenage me also feeling extremely attacked

Would that 2020 Beto O'Rourke have enjoyed the political savvy of 2024 Ted Cruz and simply not run for President

If Tianamen Square happened today in DC, the guy standing in front of the tank would be labeled a Tankie