Uploading torrents qualifies as fair use? Excited to see where this goes. Lol
They don’t mean it’s fair for you. It’s fair for corporations which need the same rights and privileges as people but obviously can’t be held to account like people because shareholders might make less money.
Worth remembering that any group could make a company. They are work, but not particularly class locked.
An Uber driver is also a corporation.
Technically even with an llc you could still be considered an individual. Don’t put it past them to utilize this for a good fucking over small business.
Fair use to train LLMs with. These judges are really some shitty fucking people.
OFC, it's not pirating if they do it. 🙄
The company also stresses that the data helped establish U.S. global leadership in AI.
Which is good for what again?
And is leadership in golfing better?
the underlying justification is so sickening.
"Breaking the law is OK if it's profitable"
there is no such thing as "rule of law"
Uh…because they are gonna cash out, and bro down? The US needs to cash out the most, ‘cuz they wanna bro down like the world has never seen before. I’m citing unnamed officials who are working closely with the coordination of resources for the planned event. It’s gunna be sick.
Last summer, Meta scored a key victory in this case, as the court concluded that using pirated books to train its Llama LLM qualified as fair use, based on the arguments presented in this case.
This is so fucked. It's literally legal for an AI to read pirated books to learn, but humans are not allowed to do this. AIs have more rights than we do already.
I’m so tired of lawyer snakes.
They are saying that seeding is inherently part of torrenting, not that it's fair use. I mean, at least they weren't a leech.
My stance is fuck the copyright companies and fuck Meta for everything they do except in this case, because seedings a good thing and so is Anna's archive.
Seeding is NOT needed for downloading.
To be fair, I did say inherently part of. It would have been rude of them not to seed.
Those bastards stole all our data! But hey, at least they seeded it. Would have been pretty darn rude, otherwise.
How does Elsevier feel about that???
I want copyright to go extinct. It has no place in a proper civilization.
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