But then they sue the Internet Archive for hosting a library for the betterment of society. Capitalism is a plague.
Capitalism = organized crime
Owned by Rupert Murdoch, who has done more harm to the world than probably anyone who wasn’t an actual dictator, so unsurprising.
Still a toss between him and some dictators.
Who says everything that’s ever been produced and being created right now (including this comment) isn’t just being mass collected and dumped into a LLM right now?
It’s like pirating digital data like a movie or ebook, everyone is told not to do it but everyone is capable.
Do you think capitalist, money hungry media companies haven’t already done it.
No one:
HarperCollins: All your writing are belong to us.
The new “Public Domain”
Y’all remember the strategy of the Commons? 🐸
If this is opt-out by default it’s at least not a complete dick move. The hard limit of $2500 compensation for opting in? Definitely a dick move.
It’s still a dick move, because Harper Collins has a huge amount of oligopoly power. Any supposed concession is likely of no real use to any authors who rely on the big companies to get published.
