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foxglacieryesterday at 8:26 PM1 replyview on HN

How is it that articles about DRM have people like you commenting who are critical of IP (I'm not disagreeing with you on that), but articles about AI being trained on GPL code, books, and art are full of people complaining about IP rights not being respected. Why don't the commenters cross-pollinate so the pro-IP guys can come here and say "We need DRM to protect artists' livelihoods" and the anti-IP guys can go there and say "AIs are doing God's work making information free like it wants to be".


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saltcuredyesterday at 8:58 PM

Because both are really just totems for an actual discomfort about rent-seeking capital operating in abstract realms that just tangentially touch some relatable life experience.

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