https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-copyrighted-material-parliament

tl;dr stealing for science.

  • TrudeauCastroson [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    I feel like they should be paying more per thing viewed than I do as a human

    They pressured the RSS guy to kill himself for scraping stuff and freely sharing, by threatening him with a stupid amount of jail time.

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      11 months ago

      the RSS guy to kill himself for scraping stuff and freely sharing, by threatening him with a stupid amount of jail time.

      which guy was this?

      • fox [comrade/them]
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        11 months ago

        Aaron Schwartz. Had some dubious libertarian-approaching ideas but he believed in total freedom of information. He downloaded and redistributed a shitload of content off JSTOR illegally because he felt that paywalling scientific studies was bad, was caught, and committed suicide when facing an unbelievably harsh sentence from a rabid DA.