Why don't you just buy a few senators and do something about it, if you're so upset?

Yep. The "fine OR imprisonment" part means fines for the rich, and imprisonment for the poor.

The filthy rich only go to prison for stealing from other filthy rich assholes.

I'm not pirating, I'm building an AI model

I agree with the conclusion, but that rationale is wrong. First, you can digitize a DVD. Second, it's not a double standard. You can grab copies of random stuff and jam it in an AI model too.
Our laws are written such that it's making a copy outside of reasonable use that's illegal, and AI training only makes a copy incidentally to what they're doing and then it's deleted. It's the same standard that makes viewing a photo on an artists website legal.

It's not bullshit because they're breaking the law, but because we need to refine the law to make it clear training an AI model isn't a reasonable usage anymore than a public broadcast of a DVD is a reasonable use.
Trying to shoehorn it into the existing laws will just create a nightmare of loopholes and complications.

remember folks: the entire problem is capitalism. it can literally all be solved by dismantling capitalism and …undismantling some guillotines.

False, they never bought your book.

Missed a major part: the AI companies are buying rare books, scanning them and then burning them. It's not like buying a DVD which can easily be digitally copied with hardware that most people have at home, it's so mucn worse than that.

The AI company doesn't even have to buy it.

This is why I’m just back to pirating shit.

Especially if it’s from Amazon.

Copyright laws are just state's monopoly on information, at this point.

Digitizing a dvd shouldn't count as copyright infringement unless you are actively distributing the video or selling it. Bullshit.

Haha he thinks these AI companies are buying the books.

Oh no no no no you got it all wrong, you have to digitize it and then burn the CD so that nobody can ever see it unless they have access to that digital copy.

Something something who else was it that burned books?

But digitizing your own content isn’t illegal you have the right to backups. It’s when you choose to distribute those copies to people who did not pay for the original product that you get in trouble. This argument makes no sense.

You wouldn't download a DVD

Exactly my argument. Its bullshit

It's easy. Don't follow the rules.

The law overwhelmingly favors corporate entities over people. We've been over this more times than HBO Max changed their logo.

A story as old as time.

Which means unlimited corrupt folk to eat.

Whether or not we can make long term change, idk.

But seeing these folk suffer sure would be nice regardless.

welcome to the real world where those in power make up their own rules and tell us to abide by whatever rules they make up on the fly to keep us powerless.

You are reposting a screen capture of a (probably AI generated) shortform video of a repost of a tweet screenshot.

I'm so sick of the hypocrisy.

This defines my political stance better than any party does. I’m against hypocrisy. I’m pro fairness. For fucks sake, there’s a reason “liberty and justice for all” is part of the Pledge of Allegiance that American public school students (like me) said every morning from grade school through high school.

I can feel a rant coming on, so I’ll just be quiet now.