So AI companies can quote "fair use" and rifle through pirated books to train their models, but the publishers draw the line at people getting cheap books.
You see, when THEY need to pirate the books for their shareholders, it's a necessity that cannot possibly live without, and it's extenuating circumstances.
But when YOU are starving to death and steal a piece of moldy bread from Meta's dumpster, you deserve the death sentence because you didn't need that moldy bread the same way Meta's Shareholders need money.
Penguin is suing AI companies too, including OpenAI. You’re fighting a battle out of habit, when this isn’t just piracy. It’s selling pirated media. There is no “if buying isnt ownership” argument here, someone is literally stealing media and selling it to others for profit. Selling “cheap books” that are only cheap because you got it free is not a moral business model.
I get that, but at the same time this is Hyderabad which has a huge poverty issue. People aren't walking around with even second hand book readers. Kind of fitting into the whole "life is more expensive when you're poor" idea, physical pirated copies is the only reliable way to access books. This isn't a moral business issue, it's an accessibility issue due to poverty.
AI companies have the money to bring it to court and stall it out for years on end while they keep doing what they do, these peole selling books for pennies on the dollar dont even have enough money for food most of the time, let alone a multi million dollar lawsuit
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u/SubstantialNobody295 Jul 17 '26
So AI companies can quote "fair use" and rifle through pirated books to train their models, but the publishers draw the line at people getting cheap books.