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    • FundMECFS
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      3319 days ago

      Laws are made by the ruling classes. So naturally when one of the ruling classes breaks a law, as long as it doesn’t hurt the rest of the ruling class too much, the instance is ignored

  • @[email protected]M
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    19 days ago

    To paraphrase an impeached president:

    When a corporation does it, it’s not illegal.

    Edit: corrected the impeachment status of the president making the quote.

    • FundMECFS
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      19 days ago
      my comment is now irrelevant because the previous comment fixed the mistake

      impeached yes.

      convicted no.

      • @[email protected]M
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        419 days ago

        Yeah sorry. I saw your comment and edited mine and forgot to add the “edit” reason. My bad.

    • Dr. Taco
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      1319 days ago

      Someone at one of these massive companies needs to setup a seedbox in the datacenter (and cover their tracks internally) so when they try to use this justification, audits confirm that they’d actually been seeding a fuckton.

    • Redjard
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      419 days ago

      Every user of that spotify beta was a leech and spotify was the only seeder for all of them.
      The meta defense only works if you make an llm output a more or less corrupted version of your warez.

    • sunzu2
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      Blaming Obama admin here while directly true is hiding the fact that MIT a tax exemot organization with billions in federal funding petitioned the government to prosecute schwartz with the that extra big dick daddy zeal.

      MIT did this at behest of the companies who owned the copyright to journals.

  • @[email protected]
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    1219 days ago

    Google also seems to pad their library with stuff uploaded to YouTube, which I’m pretty sure includes stuff not uploaded by authorized individuals.

    Music streaming services are crooked AF

  • @[email protected]
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    419 days ago

    Well yeah, Spotify was invented in Sweden, home of Pirate Bay and the Pirate Party. To cite one article about the service: “Developed to bridge the gap between illegal file sharing innovation and a behind-the-times record industry, Spotify is conducting a delicate balancing act.”