We have ruined everything in the name of sportsball.

Shatter Google.

Federation allows redundancy.

You can ignore a DMCA request. It’s not “do this or go to jail.” It’s a finger-wag that gives you a free out, where they can’t sue you if you do the thing. You can just… not… and then they’d have to go to the trouble of suing you. Which you can make difficult by being somewhere besides America and not giving a shit.

Never give Nintendo money.

Thanks, Amazon, for motivating a bunch of people to fucking hate you.

It’s especially silly because training is transformative use. If the robot read every book in the library, great, that’s what a library is for.

Decent goal, bad reason.

Right, like how people got sued for piracy, and now there’s no more piracy.

Just fund it with taxes, you dolts. Should’ve done it in the first place. It’s a function of the state, like anything else that some people use and some people don’t.

Training is transformative use. Sluicing data through a pile of linear algebra, to mechanically distill the essence of words like “fantasy,” is not what copyright protects against.