> Remember Aaron Swartz and the fate he suffered? Why is big tech getting away with so much more?

Why are you turning him into perpetuum mobile in his grave?

Do you really believe Aaron would be arguing against AI companies and for publishing / recording guilds on the grounds of intellectual property claims?

No, it's the tech community that did a sudden about-face, and is now all "friendship ended with free access to information and technologies enabling people; now RIAA is my best friend", and this move is as dumb as that meme (https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/137501417/Friendship-ended).

Calling out equivocation and out-of-context quotes is not “giving a free pass”. If there is a case to be made (and to be clear, I believe there is), then shouldn't be resorting to rhetorical slight-of-hand to “prove” it.

> Aaron Swartz and the fate he suffered?

I think what Swartz did was moral, and his prosecution was unjust.

I think what OpenAI did was moral, and them getting sued for it is unjust.

Why do you have one position for Swartz and a different one for OpenAI?

(Aaron Swartz was a mailing-list friend of mine, so I do have some bias here. But in part we knew each other because our moral position on this was similar)

We tend to accept lawbreaking if it is for a product we want.

There are several multi billion dollar companies where the founding thesis was “what if we just ignore the law?”

Then you misunderstood my point. I think copyright law should be significantly changed and the current system hurts us all.

Aaron was sued for distributing and not for pirating. They are different offences

why?

uhhh... capitalism

Because this website is full of bootlickers without real friends. People cut off from social life. Losers that hate humans.