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I can't care less about copyright and 'crimes' of copying.
So you don't care about GPL and Open Source then?
I guess you never created an original of anything? Maybe I read that wrong..
I've written more than one piece of software, and plenty of wordpress themes. I always release them without a license, for anyone to use however they want. copyright is capitalist nonsense and only exists to gatekeep creative freedom and stifle innovation.
I hate capitalism and the way it devalues people, reducing them to consumers. The fact remains we live in it, and have to eat. If you release everything to AI crawlers, what do you eat, assuming you don't lay tiles for a living, which would make you "rich" but very busy..
you should release it as public domain; unfortunately others can't "legally" use anything just because they have access to it (no license).
yeah, it's absolutely stupid capitalist theater
I don't care about laws or legality, and neither should you.
I think everyone should care about lawas and legality. It's a bad advice to tell anyone to not care.
With the slow-death of copyright, what else is left? And if not dead, how can we reclaim it? I've so many questions, and I can't focus on a single thing :(
Copyright is not dying, that is what Ai companies and those who do not care want you to believe. So you stop caring too. Copyright is an important law around the world. Just because there are loopholes and current difficulties and not being clear, does not mean its dead or dying. It just means (as always) needs some new adjustments and clarification to adapt to new technology.
I've the impression that copyright isn't for the "small guy", but for the "big tech"
It's also for the small guy, so the big guy does not steal your ideas and use it without compensation.
Th logs on my blog say otherwise
The logs on my git repository says otherwise too
What exactly do you mean?
That I've logs that prove that some companies are scraping my posts and code when they should not.
I know they do this. But it does not change the fact that copyright is for the small guy AND for the big guys.
I don't get it them, I've strictly said in my blogs, and pages: "do not scrape", I've robots.txt also explicating stating: "do not enter bot", And yet they scrape my data. Even when it's clear that this isn't welcome, so my copyright is already violated, I can get parts of my test from the Gemini and OpenAI, so it's already in their system.
The copyright is already broken, You are suggesting that I should try to sue them? I don't follow man... really sorry.
It's not the copyright that is broken, but its enforcement. And just because people violate copyright does not mean it is not meant for you as well. Just with any other law. Just because someone breaks the law, does not mean it was not meant for you as well. The copyright is there for you too. That is the purpose.
Gotcha... I think I understand your point. Yet, the lack of enforcement for this law for the small guy, and the dozens of cases of the big guy using this to screw the small guy proves somewhat contrary on it... But I think that we disagree on the philosophical implication on the topic, not on the topic itself.
And before I forget, thanks a lot for clarifying the your point of view, even that we don't fully agree in totality on the topic, I appreciate your effort and reasoning with me.
Glad we understood our points of view. I honestly didn't know how to express myself better. And thank you as well staying calm without the typical forum toxicity. :-) I guess there is not much else to discuss about this particular point anymore, as we cleared any prior misunderstandings up.
Ultimately, the law is there, the execution is not.
Yeah... maybe the revision shouldn't be on the law itself, but on the fact that the economic power can easily translate into law/gov power and this could be a major issue... But this is a total side-step on the topic... And another thing to my already dizzy mind to think about it :D
I did, obtaining a monopoly on it would go counter my beliefs. Anyway originality is overrated and very hard to measure. Especially now.