Why is it that when regular people pirate something, they immediately get a notification from the isp, threatening legal action, but when Nvidia pirates something en masse, it’s called groundbreaking innovation
En masse. Nothing Catholic about this.
TIL, thanks for the correction
Because Nvidia has an army of lawyers and a mountain of cash, duh
I mean, Nvidia is being sued by rightsholders in a class action lawsuit.
Good.
Then you have to agree that piracy is theft and people pirating content should be sued.
It’s not theft, but it is copyright infringement. I pirate, but I’m under no illusions about what I’m doing. I do try to contribute back to the artist directly where possible.
I only bring it up to make the point that not everybody is calling what Nvidia is doing ‘groundbreaking innovation’.
It’s “funny” how, when the lawsuit comes out, they stop grifting about “AI” and start talking about statistics.
my pirated movies just become neuronal correlations in my brain too!
Me: “This binary file is merely an approximate mathematical and statistical transform of the complainant’s “Deadpool 3”, your honour. If you care to glance through a few A4 pages of the binary representation of both items, you can clearly see that there is no direct copying involved, thus, no copyright claim can be upheld.”
Result: $250k fine, two years community service in anti piracy groups.
NVIDIA: “Each copyrighted work was ingested and a statistical model was generated that leverages that information for our own profit. We have no intention of compensating copyright owners for their information.”
Result: Oh you! Get out of here, you scamp! Ruffles hair
We might as well ditch the modern concept of copyright as far as I’m concerned.
Cuz there’s no good outcome to this case if copyright is our only weapon to counter the technofeudalists.
They’re very clear in their aim: Every book a human makes will be used in an effort to replace the human that made the book.
Who gives a shit if that’s through statistics or black magic? It’s anticompetitive behavior, plain and simple. Shoot them down on antitrust grounds.
If doubling the list of rights you sign away in an employment contract is the only way we’re allowed to mitigate this, then we’re fucked.
