Meta has won against Kadrey et al — the authors’ case against Meta training their Llama LLM on the authors’ books, including on pirate copies. [Order, PDF; case docket] Both sides brought motions f…
I think in most EU countries - after lobbying from US copyright corporations - it is explicitly banned to make copies from an illegal original. This was in order to criminalise downloads from torrents whether you seed or not. And the potential punishment typically involves jail sentences in order to give the police access to the surveillance necessary to prove the crime. Plus copyright violations being the only crime that in all EU countries also yields punishing damages.
Now I know this because I was against every single one of these unproportional laws, but some copyright organisations over here should know this. Just saying it would be fun if Meta got to pay out punishing damages. And even funnier if Zuckerberg got some jail time.
Just saying it would be fun if Meta got to pay out punishing damages.
It would be pretty great but we both know that’s k now how this cookoe crumbles.
The oligarchs never get the dick of the law, their property is protected
Plebs pays the taxes and their property and rights is to be looted to enable oligarchs to live their best lives
Limp dick regimes enable it because corruption fucks hard
And just like that, we are a living in the future and it is a dystopia with out much of the cool tech. Just endless extraction and deteriorating socio economic conditions
I think in most EU countries - after lobbying from US copyright corporations - it is explicitly banned to make copies from an illegal original. This was in order to criminalise downloads from torrents whether you seed or not. And the potential punishment typically involves jail sentences in order to give the police access to the surveillance necessary to prove the crime. Plus copyright violations being the only crime that in all EU countries also yields punishing damages.
Now I know this because I was against every single one of these unproportional laws, but some copyright organisations over here should know this. Just saying it would be fun if Meta got to pay out punishing damages. And even funnier if Zuckerberg got some jail time.
It would be pretty great but we both know that’s k now how this cookoe crumbles.
The oligarchs never get the dick of the law, their property is protected
Plebs pays the taxes and their property and rights is to be looted to enable oligarchs to live their best lives
Limp dick regimes enable it because corruption fucks hard
And just like that, we are a living in the future and it is a dystopia with out much of the cool tech. Just endless extraction and deteriorating socio economic conditions