Comment on The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks agoBecause they’re getting punished for providing books to people, while OpenAI & friends have been infringing copyright on a much, much bigger scale, and getting away with it. As always, the point isn’t author’s rights, it’s money.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Based on what? Distributing numbers in a big database doesn’t infringe on copyright, and downloading a web page or image doesn’t either.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
You’re right, I apologize, my use of “infringing copyright” was too loose there. What I meant in that context is more like “stealing and then re-selling the identity and essence of every human creation to ever be made into ones and zeros”