Charlie StrossIf your corporation's business model relies on lawbreaking, your corporation has no legal legitimacy.
We don't let narcotic cartels and trafficking rings list themselves on the stock exchange: why should OpenAI or Facebook be any different?
RadioPhobicSherkPopMy local Jeweller refuses to hand me bags of diamonds.
These woke monsters are killing my diamond selling industry!
FragarachI can sympathise.
There are a number of farms around us, and I've discovered that they get seriously pissed off if I just go and help myself to a sheep or two.
Some of them have turned nasty when I went and dug up some turnips.
How do they expect me to eat? I should be able to help myself to the results of their work, that's how things work, isn't it?
Light@Fragarach
This is fundamentally wrong.
Copying isn't stealing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD9cdJ6vlMI
The problem is the hypocrisy, not the copying.
@radiophobicsherkpop @cstross
