• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    But then they sue the Internet Archive for hosting a library for the betterment of society. Capitalism is a plague.

  • AllNewTypeFace
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    Owned by Rupert Murdoch, who has done more harm to the world than probably anyone who wasn’t an actual dictator, so unsurprising.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    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.

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    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.

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      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.