Post by @nixCraft@mastodon.social

2026-09-27 11:16 UTC

Remember Aaron Swartz and the tragic fate he suffered? Remember the kids who downloaded games or MP3 files, whose parents were threatened, and in some cases, extorted for money under copyright laws? Yes, where are those copyright laws now? Why are courts and governments now giving a free pass to filthy rich OpenAI, Microsoft, Google & Anthropic? I hate everything about this dual treatments. These AI companies even have audacity to tell others their AI output is copyrighted & others can't use it

Replies (16)

@danschnau@mastodon.social 2026-09-27 11:22

@nixCraft@mastodon.social absolutely. I remember all of that stuff. Poor Aaron. This whole thing is a travesty.

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@dmitrylitosh@mastodon.social 2026-09-27 11:43

@nixCraft@mastodon.social the laws are not for people

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@knightwise@mastodon.social 2026-09-27 11:44

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Very very true. Everything we create is fed into giant LLM's and moneytized without our consent. In corporations there now are companies that are too big to fail, and also too big to ever break the law.

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@Olle_Gladso@mastodon.social 2026-09-27 13:35

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Just absolutely galling. It also tells us exactly what is wrong with today's world.

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@wedz@mastodon.social 2026-09-27 18:52

@nixCraft@mastodon.social it's not me it's my algorithm AI...

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@GarretSidzaka@mastodon.social 2026-09-29 16:53

@nixCraft@mastodon.social THIS THIS THIS

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@forthy42@mastodon.net2o.de 2026-09-27 11:29

@nixCraft@mastodon.social It's always the biggest business model that wins. The law is just to pretend it's not government by violence. It is.

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@redbr1ck@mementomori.social 2026-09-27 11:42

@nixCraft@mastodon.social He died for nothing.

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@fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net 2026-09-27 11:59

@nixCraft@mastodon.social the travesty is not AI companies making fair use of copyrighted material, it's that you have so internalized the copyright lobby's arguments that you think copyright law overreach is legitimate in the first place. Aaron should never have been prosecuted at all, and in fact neither MIT nor the copyright holders wanted him to be, it was an ambitious Federal prosecutor looking for a scalp to build a political career out of. She got the scalp, but not the career.

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@ahltorp@mastodon.nu 2026-09-27 13:26

@nixCraft@mastodon.social We remember Aaron Swartz. We remember the Pirate Bay case.

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@aytvill@tech.lgbt 2026-09-27 17:21

@nixCraft@mastodon.social all of us know why courts act that way, we just don't dare to make steps beyond daily "well, yes, that's it"

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@Herman@mastodon.world 2026-09-27 17:23

@nixCraft@mastodon.social The bigest theft of intelectual property in history.

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@xenotar@littleone.littlefedi.social 2026-09-27 17:28

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Remembering the facts described in the book "The Hacker Crackdown" by Bruce Sterling...

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@paniash@mas.to 2026-09-27 17:32

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Rules for thee but not for me, is what these tech oligarchs keep telling themselves.

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@Heliograph@mastodon.au 2026-09-27 21:21

@nixCraft@mastodon.social clearly remember #AaronSwartz and yes his tragic fate is absolutely ridiculed by current events 😬

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@david@social.gamefan.net 2026-09-28 00:18

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I just responded with something similar, it's because OpenAI has more money and is doing more lobbying. The whole system is corrupt.

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