My thoughts, too. Now, there will be a court case, and Anna’s will be shut down. Because, in court, money almost always wins.
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blondebimboboi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Mesophar@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
It’s kind of ironic that a preservation focused organization didn’t have any sense of self-preservation. If they quietly scraped and archived songs over time and in the background, there never would have been any attention brought on them.
kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Why should they hide if AI companies are doing it too and even profiting from it without repercussions?
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
AI companies have rich connected evil people backing them these people don’t
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
AI companies train their software on copyrighted content. They don’t spread direct copies of that content around.
Mesophar@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
So that they don’t get the spotlight on them and get shit down? Unless they have the money and legal representation behind them to fight it, like the AI companies do?
Flagstaff@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Clandestine organizations are hard to keep a tight rein on. All it takes is one deviant to sway others and start a foolish snowball effect…
rainwall@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
They have lost dozens of court cases in as many countries. They are still up.
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Seems unlikely that they will be successful in shutting it down. If that were the case, they would have been shut down over the books already.
ITeeTechMonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ya this is sure the beginning of the end for them. They aren’t an “AI” company so the full force of the government will come after them now that they have been named in a mainstream publication.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
They’re decentralized, though. Hammer them down and a mirror will pop right up. Clearly they are also willing to work with places that are out of reach of Western Copyright law as well, given their prior interactions with Deepseek’s development.
ITeeTechMonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
TIL they are decentralized and that does make keeping them offline harder, but does make issues like honeypots and malicious mirrors more likely as sites come and go.