The key problem is that copyright infringement by a private individual is regarded by the court as something so serious that it negates the right to privacy. It’s a sign of the twisted values that copyright has succeeded on imposing on many legal systems. It equates the mere copying of a digital file with serious crimes that merit a prison sentence, an evident absurdity.
This is a good example of how copyright’s continuing obsession with ownership and control of digital material is warping the entire legal system in the EU. What was supposed to be simply a fair way of rewarding creators has resulted in a monstrous system of routine government surveillance carried out on hundreds of millions of innocent people just in case they copy a digital file.
This is so stupid since several thousand devices can use one IP address. NAT exists.
If I download music in a Starbucks, can they fine the Starbucks CEO then?
Anyway I hope I hope online artists, and authors are able to use this to sue AI companies for stealing their copyrighted works.
A good question… I suggest we all start torrenting new release movies and video games exclusively through Starbucks, because I want to know
MAC addresses serious have to be spoofed.
If I download music in a Starbucks, can they fine the Starbucks CEO then?
This sounds like the kind of grassroots activity I might be interested in.
The background is that French law requires ISPs to retain the IPs of their customer for some time. That way, an IP address can be associated with a customer.
If I download music in a Starbucks, can they fine the Starbucks CEO then?
A CEO is an employee. You generally can’t sue employees for this sort of thing. It may be possible to sue the company as a whole for enabling the copyright infringement, but that’s not to do with this case. Perhaps in the future, operators of WiFi-hotspots will be required to use something like Youtube’s Content ID system.
Anyway I hope I hope online artists, and authors are able to use this to sue AI companies for stealing their copyrighted works.
They can use this to go after “pirates”. It’s got nothing to do with AI.
Machine learning steals copyrighted material from artists and authors. Those servers have IP addresses too.
Why is a company allowed to track people from taking pirating their copyrighted content, but artists aren’t allowed to do the same to companies making a profit off their work?
Artists are allowed to do the exact same thing. That’s probably not a helpful answer, but it’s the correct answer to your question. You’re making some wrong assumptions about the law, and probably about the economics, as well. Writing a proper explanation would take me quite a while and I’m not sure if it would be appreciated.
There are some companies, EG Adobe and Shutterstock, that offer “commercially safe” image generators trained on licensed images. Artists who would like to make money by licensing images for AI training can deal with them.
Pretty sure getty has stolen publically licenced cc0 images off of Wikipedia and have even started going after the original authors of these images and people using the images even though getting stole them in the first place if I’m remembering my company controversies correctly in relation to stock companies
Great… so we’re reaffirming that society’s various structures exist purely for the benefit of monied interests, as ever. Any benefit the regular person sees from arrangements is purely coincidental, your rights stop at the point at which a corporation needs them to.
If copyright is sacrosanct then the creation of data by me is my own personal property and without a contract anyone holding my data is in violation.
What am I missing, here? If you do something illegal, they can try to find out who you are? So if the girl I am currently cyberstalking were to go to the police, they could work with my ISP to figure out who I am?
I’m going to move to a VPN pronto!
is cyber’stalking’ even illegal? there’s something incredibly harmless about scrolling thru someone’s instagram that showing up outside their house repeatedly doesn’t seem to compare with
Property rights being valued above human rights is kind of a mainstay of capitalism.
Property rights are part of human rights.
This situation is about preventive protection of someone’s rights warranting real violation of your rights.
It’s a clear violation of status quo, it’s absolute bullshit, and the officials responsible for this should all spend quality time in jail answering questions about mafia organizations they are affiliated with, and then be flogged on TV, with a lifetime prison sentence after.
Top me court says this is not enforceable bar real totalitarian state. EDIT: Also fuck them children of crowd.
They’re working on it.
lmao copyright isn’t important
if copyright were abolished worldwide today, we’d be in a happier place. people who buy things generally want to buy from the official source anyway, those official sources might even have to cut prices or (god forbid!) have to make their services better to compete in the market
If copyright were abolished, all FOSS and Creative Commons licenses would be rendered null and void, since they depend on copyright law to work.
Deal
