Note: this is income before any AT&T expenses, just to be clear and fair.

Yes, exactly. By your numbers, their revenue would go down by almost 10% while their operating expenses remain the same. Is it plausible that they could have just lowered prices by 10% and still operated profitably all this time?

It’s funny, considering how Lemley’s convictions on Fair Use are regarded by so many lemmings.

It’s a good analogy for a lot of things. The story mocks the human tendency to go along with obvious nonsense; to conform to expectations.

Such obscenity laws originate in centuries past, when people unironically believed that masturbation makes you go blind or crazy, rather than helping prevent prostate cancer. Society collectively believed that having sex the wrong way would end with you going to hell. Pornography might make the boys gay or wear women’s clothes. Well, if you look at who passes these laws now, maybe those beliefs haven’t died out.

The point is simply that there is nothing inherently harmful in being exposed to porn. Sure, some of it is disturbing or may give you bad ideas about how the world works, but that’s true for any kind of media. Whether referring to minors, eg 17-year-olds, as children is appropriate is another matter.

“harmful to minors”

Indeed, I find that few things have done more to ruin my sense of common decency than HC Andersen’s The Emperor’s New Clothes and that’s a story all about public nudity.

or risk becoming a monster.

Remind me. What became of Turing, a man who saved untold British lives during WW2?

“Had Meta bought plaintiffs’ works in a bookstore or borrowed them from a library and trained its Llama models on them without a license, it would have committed copyright infringement,” wrote plaintiffs’ counsel in the filing.

I wonder how many here agree with that theory.

Why, though? Many lemmings get away with “piracy” via torrents. Meta is in court over it and may very well lose on this count.

It does apply equally to everyone. The lemmy hive mind simply doesn’t understand copyright law.

A toy like that is easy to create and not that expensive to offer. Much more expensive than some JavaScript or CSS, but in the end it’s not that different.

I think people don’t really understand this whole scraping thing. For example, you can torrent all of Reddit until the API-change; all the comments, profiles, usernames, including now deleted stuff. There is a lot of outrage here over Reddit cracking down on these 3rd party tools. It’s difficult to see how that outrage over cracking down on 3rd party tools, fits with this outrage here over not cracking down on 3rd party tools.

Anyway, if someone want to archive all of Bluesky, they don’t need to offer some AI toy. They can just download the content via the API.