Arr matey, Sharing be Caring and all..

Cuz if you're using commercial LLMs, you're *already* a pirate, and it's a little late for moral outrage.

Piratebay, FTW!‍️

Like, if we are honest about this, there is no difference between downloading a song and listening to that song on youtube with an adblocker. Except that downloading it gives less power to google.

I really don't think that anyone should feel particularly bad about pirating a taylor swift album is my point more or less.

There are a wide variety of jobs that the cost of them is going to zero while the benefit they provide to society is incredibly high but hard to measure. This isn't unique to artists.

It gets even worse when you consider the zipf distribution the rewards typically follow.

I’m saying the contract was invalid to begin with

Until then, I'll be calling it, "unsanctioned copying."

Your argument focuses on the ethics implied by the argument. While there's a discussion to be had about the ethics of copying digital goods, "If Buying isn't ownership" isn't an ethics argument. It's a contractual one - "If you don't hold up your end of the argument, we don't need to hold up ours".

https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathread/

am not against making money. am against having to get a pittance so that a fucking fascist piece of shit can have another yatch to traffic children.

seriously, we don't need fucking capitalists make money out of our fucking labor, but it is much, much harder nowadays after the fucking bailouts.

techbros killed p2p because they are the new bankster middlemen. so either we reinvent p2p or guillotine them.

it’s come to that.