• Iconoclast@feddit.uk
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    4 hours ago

    What you get from pirating is not having to pay. Purchasing a movie still gives you the same entertainment and cultural capital.

    Nobody is obligated to hand out for free something they put time, effort, and capital into creating and running. If someone can justify to themselves that it’s okay to download it for free, then criticizing AI companies for doing the exact same thing is hypocritical on their part.

    Making money and saving money achieve exactly the same thing: you end up with more to spend.

    • sakuraba@lemmy.ml
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      4 hours ago

      Yeah because saving money as an individual is the same as a company choosing to not pay copyright holders so they can make more profit from pirating petabytes of info

      Very clever, you are clearly very intelligent

      Let me put an /s just so this doesn’t go over your head too