2025-08-10 08:24 UTC
@kolya@social.cologne @spellingmistakescostlives@mastodon.ie
Eh.
Unlike piracy, AI does actually rapidly take the art away by deleting artists' jobs plus AI resells other people's art which is not how napster worked.
So while we all realize that digital copying does not delete the original, we should not apply stricter rules to our defense against fascist big tech than big tech itself keeps applying to us.
The picture is not accurate but it's so much closer to accurate than the original campaign.
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@kolya@social.cologne 2025-08-10 08:44
@Soulshine@mastodon.social @spellingmistakescostlives@mastodon.ie The argument against piracy at the time was the same: that it destroys jobs in the film and music industry. That didn't happen to any significant degree and it remains to be seen if AI does this sort of damage. Reselling might be a point. Then again P2P networks like eMule and BitTorrent also uploaded to others which can be understood as redistributing for zero price, ie much cheaper than the original work was sold at. Similar to how AI is cheaper.