You can't become a billionaire by respecting laws and other people
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Laws are made by the ruling classes. So naturally when one of the ruling classes breaks a law, as long as it doesn’t hurt the rest of the ruling class too much, the instance is ignored
To paraphrase an impeached president:
When a corporation does it, it's not illegal.
Edit: corrected the impeachment status of the president making the quote.
my comment is now irrelevant because the previous comment fixed the mistake
impeached yes.
convicted no.
Yeah sorry. I saw your comment and edited mine and forgot to add the "edit" reason. My bad.
Note: article is from 2017
Edit: here's the follow-up from later that year: Spotify Threatened Researchers Who Revealed ‘Pirate’ History
Use the Meta defense: as long as you don’t seed then it’s fine.
I didn't share, because I didn't care.
Someone at one of these massive companies needs to setup a seedbox in the datacenter (and cover their tracks internally) so when they try to use this justification, audits confirm that they'd actually been seeding a fuckton.
Every user of that spotify beta was a leech and spotify was the only seeder for all of them.
The meta defense only works if you make an llm output a more or less corrupted version of your warez.
That's why I use OCHs
Remember when the Obama admin made Aaron Schwartz kill himself for ripping some JSTOR articles?
Blaming Obama admin here while directly true is hiding the fact that MIT a tax exemot organization with billions in federal funding petitioned the government to prosecute schwartz with the that extra big dick daddy zeal.
MIT did this at behest of the companies who owned the copyright to journals.
True, but MIT can't lock you in a federal prison for 50 lifetimes, and arguably the primary responsibility of the state is to protect private citizens against gangs of other private citizens, be they the Bloods or MIT or Chevron
Google also seems to pad their library with stuff uploaded to YouTube, which I'm pretty sure includes stuff not uploaded by authorized individuals.
Music streaming services are crooked AF
Correction. The RIAA is crooked as fuck.
Well yeah, Spotify was invented in Sweden, home of Pirate Bay and the Pirate Party. To cite one article about the service: "Developed to bridge the gap between illegal file sharing innovation and a behind-the-times record industry, Spotify is conducting a delicate balancing act."
Not true, the mp3 came all from direct connect.