Post #2853051

2026-02-16 09:19 UTC

@gisgeek@floss.social @sjn@chaos.social I'm very aware of the Anthropic case, I'm a part of it. Part of their defence has been that if they have to pay damages for everything they pirated, they'd go out of business. And now governments are talking about adding AI exceptions to copyright laws. Telling people to not share things so they don't get stolen is not a solution. It's simple victim blaming.

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@gisgeek@floss.social 2026-02-16 09:33

@rpbook@gts.phillipsuk.org @sjn@chaos.social The truth is that copyright and licenses cannot be used to avoid abuses per se. They need to be defended in court, and I'm quite sure copyright laws will change, but you know that such laws vary from country to country, so the problem was there before and will be there in the future as well. In the past, changes in law always followed changes in technology. I see no signs of something better for the future.

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@amymagdalena@lgbtqia.space 2026-02-20 10:33

@rpbook@gts.phillipsuk.org @gisgeek@floss.social @sjn@chaos.social laws exist to prevent companies doing bad shit, namely with the threat of them going out of business due to financial punishments, the fact that any court would even tolerate that defence really makes a mockery of the legal system

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