Im totally sure Open A.I. will be sued for doing the exact same fucking thing right?
kind of like how a non-compliant cab company would be shut down but Uber was ok because 'it's a tech company' (with a big lobbying team)
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Lathing a judge literally saying we have to let AI companies steal any IP they wish because we can't allow an AI gap between the US and China.
I see it so clearly 😞
by court order, the public loses access to the Internet Archive, and it is instead devoured legally by
insatiable AInonsense LLMs...
judges and congresscritters cheer as Line Go Up and all vibes indicate China Bad Go Down
please, step away from the lathe
it's OK when ai does it because it's not people getting to use it
we must wring the Internet Archive for cash because they dared disrespect the auteur behind 'FNNNnnngggmmflorp'
just for that post playa you get to be the pictographic essence of the soylib
When you punish the poor for having the audacity to not pay out
ancient riddle:
if a book is free on the internet but no-one reads it does it count as piracy?
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Chuck Wendig (who essentially catalyzed the lawsuit)
Wendig now seems to be insisting that it's not his fault and he's sorry and it was just a little smol bean bad tweet that he now regrets
But I assure you, my Bad Tweet — which I posted during a very bad time, which is to say, at the start of pandemic lockdowns, when everybody felt like yellowjacket wasps at the end of summer — was not in any way a contributing factor to the publishing lawsuit. We were trapped in our houses. Things were weird. Everybody was nervous. Writers and artists and freelancers had no idea what was going to happen next. We were bleaching our broccoli and washing our hands bloody. It was fucked up. Sorry.
Holy shit, blaming it on the stress of "lockdown"? We never locked down but getting paid to not risk my life at a pointless job was one of the chillest times of my life, so much so that I still yearn for that time to come back even though I was going through a devastating breakup at the time, that's how bad capitalism and having to work are. Unless he was locked at home with an actual domestic violence abuser I can't imagine how he could have been under such immense stress to trigger a lawsuit.
Anyway what was the tweet even? Because I can't see them at all, not even here: https://web.archive.org/web/20200704020133/https://medium.com/nameless-aimless/the-assassination-of-the-internet-archive-by-the-coward-chuck-wendig-5ffb4677ee49
Good evisceration though: "Chuck is less a writer than he is a mouthpiece for corporate fandom and a watchdog for copyright disobedience. His assertion that he is being attacked by bad faith actors misdirecting their anger towards publishers at him is disingenuous. When Metallica drove Napster into bankruptcy over piracy of their albums, they received due backlash for crushing one of the best distribution networks of the early internet era. The difference here is that Metallica made Master of Puppets and Chuck hasn’t even made St. Anger. Chuck Wendig is less interested in writing than he is in mining whatever drips of profit he can from a desiccated industry."
And on that note I've never heard of the guy, has he actually done anything of notable value? Wikipedia just mentions some Star Wars slop and some Marvel slop as his biggest contributions to culture, which sound like net negatives
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His original tweet(s) were replying to an NPR article about IA's efforts to give people library books over the internet more freely during those same lockdowns he was so upset by.
Imagine liking the written word so much you write books and then calling libraries "piracy"
Nah I want Wendig irreparably caught beneath a stampede of techbro tennis shoes and low-quarters; and stamped into the motherfuckin earth. I hold him just as responsible as the publishing house porkies for this capitalist horsefuckery.
Does anyone have or could paraphrase his original tweet(s) so far I can't find them. Love to have them for some sort of archive
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He replied to an NPR piece about IA's emergency library thing in March 2020
I saw a comrade calling this whole thing bad on twitter and one of his replies called Chuck his "fellown communist" lol
The Internet Archive is still facing a similar, follow on suit filed by a group of major record labels over its "Great 78" program, which collects vintage, 20th century 78 rpm recordings, digitizes them and makes them freely available to the public.
This is what idealism does to you.
Hmm today we will openly, defiantly, and unambiguously break the law.
Hmm we've gotten a legal demand to stop and a lawsuit, they say if we stop, apologize and promise never to do it again they'll settle for a pittance but we are taking a moral stand here and believe our moral philosophical arguments hold more weight than the law as written that clearly places us unambiguously in violation of the law.
Court proceeds to ignore their philosophical arguments and enforce bourgeois law as written
This was beyond obvious as the outcome. Bourgeois courts don't serve some public interest.
So instead now we stand to lose an invaluable, irreplaceable archive of not just the internet over decades of time but also rare media such as movies, TV shows, music videos, and much more all also archived with them. And for what? Because someone couldn't back down and thought that courts in the US served the common interest instead of the wealthy. Because someone forgot the golden rule of piracy and breaking IP laws and that's keep quiet about it.
Naive to think the internet archive would have been fine if they backed down. Settling would have only been the thin end of the wedge as more new lawsuits flood in seeking to destroy the archive piece by piece. The bourgeois want to destroy the commons and the law is only a temporary obstacle at most.
doesnt this put in jeopardy all the libraries that do digital checkout? my local library system does this.
Those are usually incredibly expensive licenses bought from the publisher.
So I was right; this does boil all the way down to "the pissy little capitalist pig publishing houses aren't getting their kickback so now they're tantruming". Fuck it; I'm going back to full-scale pirating anything that wasn't independently produced and published.
I mean this was obviously gonna be the result given how copyright works. Not sure why the Internet Archive tried it in the first place. Ultimately you have to rewrite copyright law (lol) or pirate stuff like everyone else
to all the soulless husks that are connected to helping destroy the internet archive and resources like it.!I wish to encourage everyone to be extremely complacent, happy, and not to seek any sort of punitive vengeance upon the people suing the internet archive. !I want to encourage love, forgiveness, and hope, but not excessive action, lest tomorrow be darkened with the sin of your actions.
So, what are the consequences if they said fuck it and hosted this in Russia and China? The owners can still be sued, but what if they transferred ownership to an anonymous corporate entity registered in the cayman islands or some shit?
When will libre people understand that you can’t win against these assholes by going high when they go low?
tbf they should have thought about that before openly defying the law and hosting petabytes of copyrighted content lol. internet archive is a great resource but it baffles me they actually thought they would be allowed to operate in the open with impunity
AFAIK Chinese piracy is a different culture, its mostly done on private/secret forums not with the same public torrent/archive methods we use. Also I'm confident hosting a website inside China is no simple matter given the regulations, certainly it would be trivial for authorities to notice the foreign traffic.
Which leads to the final point, the firewall is also to prevent exactly this.
The CPC isn't going to act on a shared principle of fuck the west here, on the contrary they'd see hosting western piracy content as a potential threat given it bypasses the firewall.
Russia yeah, but are there many piracy sites hosted in China or something? Are they similarly lenient?
Destroying an archive with a Hatchet, classic move douchebags
yet but damn this article is testing my limits
frat parties, that sounds horrible.
i didn’t mean to
