OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free - eviltoast
OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.
  • theVerdantOrange@reddthat.comEnglish
    26·
    4 months ago

    The law they’re breaking is civil, so they can only get sued; this is basically Napster. Also this case is is Britain, so RICO doesn’t apply.

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      15·
      4 months ago

      If this is OK, downloading a movie to watch it, not to make any profit, is OK, right? If it isn’t, will they get fined proportionally to the people who get fined for downloading a movie?

      • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        51·
        4 months ago

        some countries this is actually legal, it’s just the redistributing part that is illegal

        note: I’m oversimplifying here, the countries that allow for downloading aren’t actually letting you have it for free, it’s under the basis that you’ve already purchased one form of the movie and you are downloading it so you can preserve what you have purchased already