We've been here before, when BitTorrent sites thought they could raise money for the business of... distributing pirated material. - ThreadSky

manmademoon.bsky.social • 6 days ago

We've been here before, when BitTorrent sites thought they could raise money for the business of... distributing pirated material.

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Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

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doomgolly.bsky.social•6 days ago

Boo hoo to their industry. They’re intellectual squatters. I bet it would kill the housing market too if everyone stopped paying. They should be ridiculed into oblivion.

marttiekstrand.bsky.social•5 days ago

This comment is spot on:
https://bsky.app/profile/thepeterkelly.bsky.social/post/3lpwlyiun7k22

petersjvecrumba.bsky.social•5 days ago

AKA "AI" can't work without committing intellectual theft.

petersjvecrumba.bsky.social•5 days ago

Pay or don't use someone else's intellectual property. It's as simple as that.

mateohh.bsky.social•6 days ago

now they just use ads like everyone else

mauricesmithtvi.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yep. Clegg is being an utter hypocrite but expect no less from the Tory austerity enabler

pigasuspress.bsky.social•5 days ago

Sir Nick Clegg,
We can print your face on toilet paper...
Spectacles on, or off?
Mouth open, or closed?
Please reply soon!

starrfire71.bsky.social•6 days ago

😂😂😂🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ for fucking fucks sake

carolmcd7123.bsky.social•5 days ago

It working AI.
Permissions will make AI better.

beardedcurmudgeon.bsky.social•6 days ago

Then kill the industry if you don't want to get permission.

jackmoxley.bsky.social•6 days ago

AI can quite happily exist without stealing copyrighted material.

The business of replacing artists with corporate owned and managed AI by replicating their work can't however.

We need that business like a dentist needs a claw hammer.

inputyourhandle.bsky.social•6 days ago

Am I missing something? Radio has been paying for music artist material for decades. Spotify built a streaming industry using the same content. What a foolish statement. He should have said my benefactors want to charge you to consume your own product whilst giving you nothing for your contribution

blackannis.bsky.social•5 days ago

https://www.prsformusic.com/

alan-duncan.bsky.social•6 days ago

Weren't they (AI companies) just complaining about 'cheap knock off' AI from China that they claimed was trained on their code? The hypocrisy is astounding.

alan-duncan.bsky.social•6 days ago

If it can't exist without stealing work then it DESERVE'S to die. That's just theft, pure and simple.

cheddel.bsky.social•6 days ago

Asking permission would also kill the businesses of burglary and identity theft

manazand.bsky.social•5 days ago

Sort of the opposite power balance though, big corpos doing the stealing.

passionpants.bsky.social•5 days ago

Ah yes, all those bootleg recordings of Bowie gigs .... those were the days.

realpleo.bsky.social•5 days ago

Ivan Drago said it best.

realpleo.bsky.social•5 days ago

He being the AI industry…just to avoid any confusion.

bellabronza.bsky.social•6 days ago

So your idea is to steal or not include the artist at all? I haven’t read the article I am just going off of when this AI issue causes a shutdown in Hollywood.

mikefarley.bsky.social•5 days ago

Despite the existence of laws and police the crime business has managed to do okay…

golpeadordelgnomo.bsky.social•5 days ago

Even, AI disproves of Meta.

msaulters.bsky.social•6 days ago

The copyright laws they want to break were written specifically to protect the artists. This is established history. They want to survive by consuming the source of their food.

otopico.bsky.social•5 days ago

They want to make it a commodity

They want to commodify imagination

michaelschmand.bsky.social•5 days ago

Mrs. Clegg, you must be proud of him
Mrs. Clegg, another drop of gin?

jimj.bsky.social•6 days ago

I fondly remember The Offspring selling Napster-branded merch at their shows.

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