RE: https://xoxo.zone/@waxy/116772625748491745
I wrote about how I discovered that a new site for The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig's long-running Tumblr project-turned-book, was a bootleg made by a marketing agency. They published the complete book verbatim, then added AI-generated art and new AI words, entirely without permission.
@sennoma @andybaio this sort of thing is why we need to stop making laws that can only be enforced when the victim is rich enough to win a lawsuit against the perpetrator. Either by replacing each enumerated right of action with a crime and empowering law enforcement to enforce them directly, or by establishing a civil analog to the public defender which will sue on behalf of all victims.
(Tho we might have to tax the rich to pay for either of those)
Andy Baio
lower-value human capital
ShadSterling