I’ve got a few things but they’re not allowed.

Not even the Nazis openly joked about ovens.

Oda’s really reaching for new characters.

… oh.

Screaming out loud that it’s ingroup / outgroup tribalism.

“Lose.”

Huh, it’s almost like this new tool is fine for placeholder art, and placeholders can be good enough to ship.

Did you know The Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction” was supposed to have a brass section? That driving riff with the fuzzbox guitar was a placeholder. They released it as-is, the song hit #1, and distortion became mainstream. At what point do we stop lamenting all the horn players who were robbed?

Hard to convince a studio to embrace it if this article is the kneejerk response to some PNGs.

Which leads the loudest complainers to act vindicated, because what could it possibly be good for, except the few PNGs they notice?

Well good news, all those court decisions said they’re still getting sued for piracy. The one time Lemmy seems to care about piracy.

Fair use is anything transformative. Shred a book and pick whole words from the scraps. The resulting poetry has no intent, but is still yours. Even if you stole that book.

If they’d bought a pile of CDs, would your opinion be any different? If not - that’s all pretense.

I can quote passages from a book I shoplifted, and that outright theft doesn’t change whether my use is fair use.

Would this situation be better if they’d all had guns?

Which they would plainly have taken the time to load?

Just because you don’t like them, doesn’t make what they do illegal.

My actual argument is right there. Feel free to engage with it.

Fuck eternal copyright.

Anything thirty years old belongs in the public domain. You should find no restrictions on the discography of Nirvana or any John Candy film. They’re ours, now. That’s what the money was for.

But you can train generative models on albums published yesterday. Training is transformative use. Now: sharing a song blatantly similar to Taylor Swift’s latest hit will end with her owning your house. Which also applies to actual human musicians. Similarity of the end product is all that matters, for infringement - and only if you share it. Copyright is about copying.

Shredding every MP3 on the internet into a gigabyte of math soup is not copying.

A program that makes new songs, in any genre and subject you can describe, is not the same thing as a pile of records. The program can’t play the White Album. The pile doesn’t have any ska about weather balloons.

The dumbest possible response to all this AI nonsense would be giving more power to known bastards.

That seems like lynching with more steps.

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Imagine a crab.

That drum says Gary still inks first and asks questions later.

Copyright is only a monetary incentive. If Riot’s not going to do anything with all that work and art, it should be public-domain.

how many ways can you really communicate with a cell tower?

Analog encoding assigns each device in a cell its own frequency range.

Time-domain multiplexing assigns each device a fraction of a second to transmit.

Quadrature phase-shift keying alters the timing of a signal to convey data.

Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing has each device transmit the same signal over P out of Q bands, such that each device’s signal can be reconstructed by knowing which bands it transmitted on.

There’s a fucking reason your phone is faster now than in 2010.

How cell phones work is ridiculously complicated. Going from analog, to time-domain shenanigans, to binary wizard math, is why you can watch 720p video and whine that it’s not 1080p.

Not aided by how many instances fall for the cult of civility.

Saying “fuck off, Nazi” needs more protection than being a fucking Nazi.

Would it always be in response to Nazis? Nope. But sometimes it is, and the reason we have human beings as moderators is so they can tell.