Access to education and information should be free - or at the very least a lot less broken than it is today. https://annas-archive.org/torrents
You can make it free by producing a book and then releasing it to public domain.
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#32> Copyright Crime Special Unit It's amazing that people have somehow been convinced that it's sane not only to throw others in prison for copying files but also to have special police for it.
The cyberpunk dystopia that 80s fiction authors prepared [some of] us for.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless big tech does it I guess
"It's not copyright infringement! I'm just using it to train my neural networks with the information!"
This quote is perfectly constructed to underline the hypocrisy considering this case is about pirating educational material. If pirating information is allowed when that neural network you are training is some LLM, why shouldn't it be allowed when that neural network is a human brain?
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#35> Copyright Crime Special Unit It's amazing that people have somehow been convinced that it's sane not only to throw others in prison for copying files but also to have special police for it.
Drug and Copyright Enforcement Agency? I always thought that one reason to go after marijuana was that it was something that one could easily "grow at home" -- eg, make a copy. Alcohol and hard drugs typically required a lot of equipment or expertise. ..and in a dystopian future there will be an agency to remove any unauthorized knowledge (gained from pirated sources) from ones' brain.
>..and in a dystopian future there will be an agency to remove any unauthorized knowledge (gained from pirated sources) from ones' brain.
as a preview - the similar is going to happen to the LLMs soon. Actually with growth of LLMs it may become unimportant what is in the actual biological brain of its user.
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#37So 'pirating' stuff for personal use is bad, but if it's for corp use and benefits than it's good.
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#38So 'pirating' stuff for personal use is bad, but if it's for corp use and benefits than it's good.
In USA? Correct (unfortunately)
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#39Obviously book authors need to be paid, but those at the bottom of the ladder seeking to climb it through education can't afford the books.
Perhaps some kind of program run by the publishers could give free books to these people, to reduce the motivation for piracy of the books? Those that can afford it would still pay, of course.
That said, the current system is broken, so while this particular site is gone, z-library and anna's archive live on and won't be getting taken down any time zoon.
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#40> Copyright Crime Special Unit It's amazing that people have somehow been convinced that it's sane not only to throw others in prison for copying files but also to have special police for it.
I had the same thought. Those people could be put to so much better use, solving real problems that everyday people have.
> Those people could be put to so much better use, solving real problems that everyday people have.
You can apply that logic to large swathe of well paid jobs.