But then they sue the Internet Archive for hosting a library for the betterment of society. Capitalism is a plague.
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Capitalism = organized crime
Owned by Rupert Murdoch, who has done more harm to the world than probably anyone who wasn’t an actual dictator, so unsurprising.
Who says everything that's ever been produced and being created right now (including this comment) isn't just being mass collected and dumped into a LLM right now?
It's like pirating digital data like a movie or ebook, everyone is told not to do it but everyone is capable.
Do you think capitalist, money hungry media companies haven't already done it.
The new "Public Domain"
Y'all remember the strategy of the Commons? 🐸
If this is opt-out by default it's at least not a complete dick move. The hard limit of $2500 compensation for opting in? Definitely a dick move.
It's still a dick move, because Harper Collins has a huge amount of oligopoly power. Any supposed concession is likely of no real use to any authors who rely on the big companies to get published.