Current IP laws are too restrictive, but scraping public facing websites is not theft even under those crazy laws
I have no moral objection to the use of Anna's Archive to train models. A good use, if illegal. But I do recogise and condemn the hypocrisy of Meta doing it. Not surprising, just disgusting
The wasting of bandwidth is annoying, so silly. We should be better organized
Calling it theft is buying into the mad bad and sad IP legal thinking that has become the dominant paradigm in the West
In a way, I agree with your last sentence. But there is a difference, and that is power.
As a simplistic hypothesis: The already-powerful and super-wealthy taking all that IP from the small content creators is theft, IMHO. The small content creators who can't afford JSTOR finding some free source for a paper, etc. is democratic, empowering, and enriches our society.
The law is an ass.
Current IP laws are too restrictive, but scraping public facing websites is not theft even under those crazy laws
I have no moral objection to the use of Anna's Archive to train models. A good use, if illegal. But I do recogise and condemn the hypocrisy of Meta doing it. Not surprising, just disgusting
The wasting of bandwidth is annoying, so silly. We should be better organized
Calling it theft is buying into the mad bad and sad IP legal thinking that has become the dominant paradigm in the West