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Yeah. These AI settlements make such a mockery of past copyright enforcement victims that it's straight up offensive.

Police descended upon Kim Dotcom like he was a terrorist or something. They rappelled down helicopters and stormed his home like he was bin Laden.

Then these big techs come along and they make some absurd cost of doing business settlement.



Stealing on behalf of the poor versus stealing on behalf of the rich.

We barely consider the latter a crime. Just pay 10% of your take back into the settlement fund and don't get caught next time.


Let's place the rage in the rage in the right place. What they did to past infringements is wrong. What they're doing now is also wrong, but less wrong.


It’s just selective enforcement and it sucks to be the little guy. That’s all this is about…




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