@fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net
2026-09-27 11:59 UTC
@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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@trollkatt@mastodon.online 2026-09-28 03:04
@fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net @nixCraft@mastodon.social I am pretty sure he doesn’t think copyright overreach is legitimate at all. But he is contrasting how harshly the law was applied then vs now.
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@quinn@social.circl.lu 2026-09-30 08:26
@fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net @nixCraft@mastodon.social MIT pursued him aggressively and vindictively. JSTOR didn't want the case. MIT wanted to make a public example of him and they did.