Why, who are they hurting?
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Am I dumb or is that not supposed to be normal? With inflation you don’t expect it to go down, you expect it to go up a little bit every day.
“The housing market is doing better” doesn’t mean prices are going down, but rather that it isn’t going up as fast as it used to.
You think? Because the vast majority of innovation (beyond the first few) was done by men who either had money (or priviliege, which in that time was the same thing) or men who were paid (or rewarded in some way) by those who did, resulting in the same thing. People who had no money/privilege and were not paid/sponsored did not have time to innovate, they had to spend their day trying to survive.
If you were “paid” by your king/warlord or whoever, you think they allowed you to just go do the same for their enemy right after?
Besides, I think we can all agree that innovation has been incredibly fast since capitalism came along, though whether it’s a cause or correlation is debatable. If your argument is that they came up with fire without copyright, then I’m afraid it’s not a very good one.
This could work, but would require a big societal change that goes beyond the level of “copyright bad” going on in this thread.
Yes, this is exactly what happens. Lone humans just can’t do much on their own, you need money to fund you, and money doesn’t fund anything that isn’t going to make them more money.
You’re not stealing knowledge, you’re stealing someone else’s time, effort and money. There’s a reason there’s IP laws everywhere.
What then do you suggest as the alternative? Or is your suggestion just to stop innovation?
But then if you can’t copyright it companies wouldn’t invest money in it since it wouldn’t be profitable. That’s kinda the whole point of copyright, so that there’s an incentive for innovation. Why invest in R&D when you can just let your competitor do it and immediately steal it from then?
Whether they are or not doesnt matter, everyone calls them so and it’s almost certainly the kind of sites the OP had in mind.
Most piracy sites don’t host anything besides a simple frontend, they just embed videos from a variety of other websites nobody would deign use directly, because those sure as hell do have worse ads than youtube.
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Political Memes@lemmy.world•Correction: it's been up to $425 billion now
4·16 days agoI’m not sure that 300 billion is even enough to pay for all the damages that were done to begin with, not much of a return on investment.
Ironic, this is basically lemmy in a nutshell.
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Technology@lemmy.world•ChatGPT's market share slips below 50% for first timeEnglish
2·17 days agoWhat scheme, their last models have been so much better than OpenAI’s it’s no surprise people are moving to Claude.
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•average physics student vs POTUS 47English
11·20 days agoThat makes him immoral, not stupid. I swear people on here will call anyone they don’t like stupid.
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•average physics student vs POTUS 47English
218·21 days agoHe’s 80 and spent 6 of then as president. I don’t think you’d fare much better. Why blame a senile man rather than those who put him in place?l
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Putting AI in charge of lives, because what could go wrong?
2·26 days agoWhat loss of lives, there is obviously a human at the end that verifies the flight path before flying it. It’s just there to save 90% of that human’s time. If that results in deaths, it’s that human’s fault, not the AI.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay themEnglish
3·26 days agoLook at the public numbers, it seems true. Copilot on your taskbar is just windows being garbage, not the AI being bad. Just look at self-hosted AI and measure the power costs of your queries. It’s tiny.
Very much depends, not an absolutely true. Other commenter’s example is good: I can absolutely cook better steaks than all but one restaurant in a 30km radius. Pizza, sushi, most non-fish seafood? Not so.
But truly the biggest win here is that you can choose what ingredients you use, and that usually results in “better” food than the restaurant simply because it’s cooked and spiced perfectly the way you like it.
The sequels are literally just a copy paste of the original trilogy with a different skin. The prequels may not tell a great story, but at least it’s original.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes holdEnglish
2·1 month agoLimit it per household/IP and block VPNs. You people really have no imagination.





True, but then again there are so many such things. If I go into the woods for my own enjoyment and accidentally get lost requiring a rescue, am I being selfish? What about skiing, mountain climbing and all such activities? They all involve first responders saving your ass.
Hell by that logic anyone who drives a vehicle on a public road for any non-productive reason is being selfish.