After best-selling U.S. authors accused #AI #tech companies of #pirating their #books, other artists have discovered their works have been copied as well: The new wave of generative AI systems are trained on vast amounts of data - text, images, video, and audio files, all scraped from the internet.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66231268?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

I think that we should stop #criminalizing #pirating and I wish the #government would give #everyone $50,000 every month no matter what and I think that #people should stop treating sex #workers like they're scum of the #earth and I wish that we all cared a little more about #artists and #musicians and #dancers and #writers and I think we should stop acting like #gender and #sexuality is the same for #everybody and I think we should all #steal a little more

Beaverton: New Netflix prompt invites users to log into The Pirate Bay every 31 days https://www.thebeaverton.com/2023/06/new-netflix-prompt-invites-users-to-log-into-the-pirate-bay-every-31-days/ #satire #canada #commentary #Entertainment #entertainment #Television #pirating #Netflix #movies #film

People Are #Pirating #GPT4 By Scraping Exposed #API Keys
Why pay for $150,000 worth of #OpenAI access when you could just steal it?
The pirate, who goes by the handle #Discodtehe appears to have been scraping exposed API keys for longer . In one Discord message from March, they wrote “the other day I scraped repl.it and found over 1000 working openai api keys.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93kkky/people-pirating-gpt4-scraping-openai-api-keys

Iconic Torrent Site RARBG Shuts Down, All Content Releases Stop

There will be plenty of copycats who are eager to take over the RARBG brand, like what popped up after KickassTorrents, Torrentz, and ExtraTorrent shutdown in the 2015-2016 exodus, but the real #RARBG is no more.

#pirating #TVShows #Torrents #Movies #BitTorrents #pirate
https://torrentfreak.com/iconic-torrent-site-rarbg-shuts-down-all-content-releases-stop-230531/

I don't even like #Zelda and I'm #pirating #TearsOfTheKingdom right now because FUCK #NINTENDO! https://1337x.to/torrent/5646172/The-Legend-of-Zelda-Tears-of-the-Kingdom-v1-0-0-Switch-Emulators-MULTi10-FitGirl-Repack/ #piracy #videoGames #gaming #pirate

Something I find kinda jarring about this here 21st century is that the average #person with an #internet connection and an ounce of #pirating know-how has access to more #movies and #tv shows than #anyone has ever had in the #history of forever and yet there are still #people trying to #argue that the #screenwriter #strike is bad #because it #means we might #experience a #temporary lack of new #television :win3_terminal:

This article showcases the importance of three radical ideas:

1. The necessity of free and open source software being the norm
2. The necessity of abolishing intellectual property
3. "Piracy" (unlawful copying) should always be encouraged and supported

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/planned-obsolescence-cochlear-implants/

#FOSS #Opensource #Accessibility #inclusivity #IntellectualPropertyIsTheft #IntellectualProperty #Capitalism #Piracy #Pirating

I've been asked a few times if I use patterns/ where I get patterns and the answer is I usually just pirate them.

Pirating, it's not just for software.

#sewing #speedos #pirating

Trakt has been down for almost a whole day, pirates really need an open source alternative to track their shows in their streaming/torrenting apps #pirating

@stellarskylark Does that still fit the technical definition of “#pirating”?

The word #decentralization hasn’t seen itself in the spotlight since #pirating, but here we are again.

There was a distribution problem within #media.

Externally, access was limited even when #technology was reaching a place where innovating for streaming was becoming capable, yet industry wasn’t moving

Internally, there was a lopsided profit gain

Decentralization forced both internal and external innovation — much to the chagrin of industry, and helped usher in what we have now

Yet…
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"Pirating" GPL Software, talking about ElementaryOS' bizarre stance: https://krisives.github.io/posts/pirating-gpl-software/ #linux #distro #elementaryos #pirating #gpl #foss

https://torrentfreak.com/nintendo-conducted-invasive-surveillance-operation-against-homebrew-hacker-201223/

This is why #homebrew , #jailbreaking and #pirating are all important. Corporations are not your friends and don't care for your #culture or your rights - first chance they get, they'll skin you alive and sell your parts to the highest bidder. And remember, #Nintendo is a Japanese company and thus very likely influenced, if not run by, the Yakuza.

Gee I wonder what @Nintendo thinks of this.