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  • On the post: FTC Gets Fair Use Backwards, Claims It’s Somehow Anti-Competitive?

    terop ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2023 @ 07:47am

    if google has 2 billion cash available for licensing, they can support 2000 artists with 1 million bucks each. RIAA and MPAA will give google an award of best supporting actor when that happens.

  • On the post: FTC Gets Fair Use Backwards, Claims It’s Somehow Anti-Competitive?

    terop ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2023 @ 04:53am

    evidence was not required. Its enough that "plaintiff's claims are accepted as true", so even if no real evidence is forthcoming, this suspicion can be used to financially ruin the defendent.

  • On the post: FTC Gets Fair Use Backwards, Claims It’s Somehow Anti-Competitive?

    terop ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2023 @ 04:19am

    A tried-and-true approach to marketing.
    Yes. It's called honesty. Basically you don't need to keep your happy-happy-face with pepsodent-smile ongoing for long periods of time, you can tell your customers directly that their practices are not up to the standards that we're used to.

  • On the post: FTC Gets Fair Use Backwards, Claims It’s Somehow Anti-Competitive?

    terop ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2023 @ 03:53am

    Now, finally empowered with this new tool, we can push forward into our bright and prosperous future!
    Yes, that's the idea.

  • On the post: FTC Gets Fair Use Backwards, Claims It’s Somehow Anti-Competitive?

    terop ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2023 @ 03:48am

    oh and btw, check https://github.com/terop2/GameApi to see our source repo.

  • On the post: FTC Gets Fair Use Backwards, Claims It’s Somehow Anti-Competitive?

    terop ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2023 @ 03:18am

    And Linus gave his software away, and it proved so useful
    dogfood has some influence on this phenomenon. When the dogs found out that dogfooding is available, they went and downloaded the kernel. Rest is history. Our technology is following their footsteps, with our dogfood approach. Now we're trying slightly larger pile of dogfood and hope that we can every dog from the world to visit our pile and place our 3d engine to all the 1.2 billion web sites on the planet. While we're still far for the 1.2 billion target (currently at number 3), our technology has already been hardened against requirements when the whole world starts using it.

  • On the post: FTC Gets Fair Use Backwards, Claims It’s Somehow Anti-Competitive?

    terop ( profile ), 10 Nov, 2023 @ 11:39pm

    Why would AI need to go to pirate sites in order to train upon said material when said material is readily available everywhere.
    Everyone else is.... tadaa.... following the law... and thus they only have small amount of content available. Its legal requirement that platforms that offer content to the public are....tadaa.... licensing the material from content owners...

  • On the post: FTC Gets Fair Use Backwards, Claims It’s Somehow Anti-Competitive?

    terop ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2023 @ 10:06pm

    Massive citation needed there.
    Citation below: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/26/authors-guild-jealous-of-other-terrible-author-lawsuits-against-ai-decides-to-join-in-the-party/ says explicitly: "97. Some independent AI researchers suspect that Books2 contains or consists of ebook files downloaded from large pirate book repositories such as Library Genesis or LibGen," "which offers a vast repository of pirated text." "Other possible candidates for books2's sources include Z-library, another large pirate book repository that hosts more than 11 million books, and pirate torrent trackers like Bibliotik, which allow users to download ebooks in bulk"

  • On the post: FTC Gets Fair Use Backwards, Claims It’s Somehow Anti-Competitive?

    terop ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2023 @ 07:42pm

    If a human is allowed to do it, why is a computer not allowed to?
    Well humans are not allowed to do it either. The cases we're dealing with is things like passing pirated material from pirate sites to the AI to monetize the illegal activity. Same material given to humans would require the human to reject the material as copyright infringement before learning it. Failing to do the reject, and internet community will bash the person to death by wooden sticks simply because they recognize the original source material to come from pirate sites.

  • On the post: FTC Gets Fair Use Backwards, Claims It’s Somehow Anti-Competitive?

    terop ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2023 @ 05:09pm

    while the other just affects the bottom line of a few copyright-loving gatekeepers.
    Yes. This would be me. I'm a gatekeeper. The world has no access to my technology, until I receive good compensation for the work I do. The copyright pirate's operation is like a huge nuclear explosion. It takes away your ability to live in current society, when it explodes on your face. Its just sad that the good technologies that we spent 10 years developing are stacked to my kitchen cupboard instead of letting end users that actually need the technology to use it. But we have no choice on the matter. End users can't find the technology even if we waved the solution on front of their eyes. They just can't recognize that this is the thing that solves their web publishing 3d adventure problems.

  • On the post: FTC Gets Fair Use Backwards, Claims It’s Somehow Anti-Competitive?

    terop ( profile ), 09 Nov, 2023 @ 04:27pm

    FTC's comments are all good

    What the hell are you babbling? All the FTC's comments were well thought out policy discussion, but the comments you added to it were completely unreasonable extensions of end user powers. It's like letting end users misuse the products we create and then president's nuclear arsenal red button would be given to fucking monkeys.

  • On the post: Authors Guild, Jealous Of Other Terrible Author Lawsuits Against AI, Decides To Join In The Party

    terop ( profile ), 02 Nov, 2023 @ 03:26pm

    Telling someone where to find resources will never be the grand theft infringement you want it to be.
    Google search is infringing web site, given that it directly copies titles and images from the original web page. Good test about infringement is a test where you "remove" the original content from web and then do all the copying and linking operations, and calculate how much of google search is left standing after all the original content was removed from the web. Basically removing my meshpage.org web site from the web by shutting down the server, and then letting all cached copies to expire, and once you realize that google search no longer indexes my web site, it means that the search results content was directly based on content in the original web site. That's called blatant infringement. The search results contain no original content at all, but it's all based on infringing copies of other people's web properties.

  • On the post: Appeals Court: You Can’t Sue YouTube Because It Didn’t Ban An Account You Accuse Of Copyright Infringement

    terop ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2023 @ 03:22pm

    We really are back to this strategy of praying that you don’t have to prove or show evidence that a crime happened, are we?
    Yes, the following quote from legal paperwork says it all: """In deciding whether the plaintiff has stated a claim upon which relief can be granted, the Court accepts the plaintiff’s allegations as true and draws all reasonable inferences in favor of the plaintiff. """

  • On the post: Appeals Court: You Can’t Sue YouTube Because It Didn’t Ban An Account You Accuse Of Copyright Infringement

    terop ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2023 @ 01:38pm

    the Cox case was perfectly happy to treat accusations of infringement as evidence of infringement
    This kind of default behaviour by the courts are warranted when arguments starting from this location are generally always flawed in certain direction. The content owner's copyright accusations have been accurate enough that this default mode for courts is easy to establish. Generally avoiding copyright infringement is difficult enough that none of the vendors preferred to do it without courts forcing their hand. All the new technologies, including google books scanning, youtube, artificial intelligence, game streaming, dance performances etc were all trying to avoid copyright law instead of embrace the limitations involved in the law. Thus this default position that copyright accusation is equivalent of copyright infringement whenever plaintiff's paperwork claims needed to be examined based on 4 corners of the paperwork, instead of evaluating what actually happened in the marketplace. Basically, the claims cannot be dismissed early, if the plaintiff's paperwork holds water. It is defense's expert witness who can blow holes to the arguments, plaintiff's own paperwork is NOT NEEDED FOR THAT.

  • On the post: Authors Guild, Jealous Of Other Terrible Author Lawsuits Against AI, Decides To Join In The Party

    terop ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2023 @ 11:03pm

    we could not have any search engine, as they don’t need a license to index webpages
    Their fair use argument is that YES, WE DID COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT, but we just skipped the most valuable part of websites, i.e. high quality images and web site layout is not available in the index. Thus our index is transformative even if it reproduces titles and navigation structure exactly as specified in the target web site html code.

  • On the post: Authors Guild, Jealous Of Other Terrible Author Lawsuits Against AI, Decides To Join In The Party

    terop ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2023 @ 04:17pm

    And yet both have been found to be fair use.
    You mean the fair use where the defendant needed to admit copyright infringement first, and only after all hell breaks loose, courts are willing to consider their fair use arguments? The court paperwork described the issue like this: The fair use is affirmative defense, i.e. you have to have wrongdoing first established. And it shouldn't be used as a mechanism for default behaviour of product development.

  • On the post: Authors Guild, Jealous Of Other Terrible Author Lawsuits Against AI, Decides To Join In The Party

    terop ( profile ), 04 Oct, 2023 @ 02:50am

    The closest an AI will get to infringement is to create something in the style of someone else, but since “style” isn’t copyrightable, there’d be no actual infringement.
    This isn't true. There will be 3 classes of infringements: 1) input or "training" infringeent 2) model infringement 3) output infringement If you only consider output infringement to be important, you miss large chunk of the illegal activity that is happening with AI systems.

  • On the post: It’s Beyond Stupid That Robocallers And Lobbyists Have Made Our Voice Networks Almost Unusable

    terop ( profile ), 27 Sep, 2023 @ 11:49am

    It's no suprise...

    I had some meetings with equity companies called Marquee Equity, and they offered a service that spams investors with spam messages until enough money falls off the investor tree. If this is their best idea of how to get money for small companies or one-person teams, then its no wonder that phone networks are full of spam callers. Their upfront cost of $3000 was too much for me, given that its not guaranteed that any of the investors will hand over their money, so I rejected their offer of activating spam operation. But given this reality, our technology is not seeing its money injection that we were expecting. (the famous meshpage)

  • On the post: Unity’s New Pricing Plan Unites Everyone Against Unity

    terop ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2023 @ 11:10am

    lmao nobody cares because better software exists
    There's enough room for every piece of software in the wider world. You just need to take your head from the sand and try to see the world beyond your own backyard: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fpin%2F114982596705968205%2F&psig=AOvVaw21-Z_kr5fkNanWY_X1gmSH&ust=1694974089369000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBAQjRxqFwoTCLic_dbcr4EDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAR If better software exists, it means those developers are busy serving their customer base. This brings opportunities for fringe solutions that are not yet popular, as emerging solutions are the future in the same way as how children are building the future. We are the world.

  • On the post: Unity’s New Pricing Plan Unites Everyone Against Unity

    terop ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2023 @ 10:51am

    Therefore, from a consumer standpoint development for a project that isn’t released has no value.
    But my project is released via my web site and itch.io. Any idea that it isn't released is just hogwash. My web site explicitly says this kind of measurement results: MOST RECENT RELEASE: WIN: (0 days ago) MOST RECENT RELEASE: LINUX: (3 days ago) I.e. the development activity was completed 3 days ago and windows release came today.

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