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this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2025
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A: "Hey, did you just download all the movies of 2024?"
B: "Yeah"
A: "That's illegal"
B: "No no, it's not illegal. I'm gonna train my AI model. So it's fine"
A: "With your i3 PC with 4 GB of RAM?"
B: "I'll get better hardware later on. I might have to watch them to understand what to use for training"
A: "As long as you use it for training, it's fine. Make sure to not watch it for your entertainment"
B: "Yeah sure, bye"
Legally, the one hosting the material is the one who is punished, not the downloader. Though, if they are using torrent software, they are both downloading and hosting. Copyright law doesn't give a shit why they're watching it.
If I downloaded pictures on the internet by visiting a web site, I'm not going to suddenly get punished because it's copyrighted. Otherwise, every one of us is now in trouble because of the linked article.