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[–] [email protected] 147 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Cool. If OpenAI gets a pass, then piracy should be legal, right? I mean what good is a trademark or copyright law?

Edit: "I can't make money without stealing other people's work" is definitely a take

[–] IphtashuFitz 58 points 1 week ago (4 children)

No, see, piracy is just you downloading movies for yourself. To be like OpenAI you need to download it, put it in a pretty package with a bow, then sell it over and over again. Only when it’s piracy for profit do you get to beg and plead for a pass.

[–] Frozengyro 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But I'm an aspiring artist, without pirating thousands of movies and TV shows, I'll never make my 'highly profitable' magnum opus!

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 3 points 1 week ago

I'm an aspiring dead beat, with out food to provide basic biochemical energy I'll never beat any dead.

[–] chonglibloodsport 13 points 1 week ago

You skipped a crucial step: first you gotta raise a few hundred million in VC funding from Silicon Valley bigwigs!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So if I download a movie and use a voice changer to change all the dialog to sound like the donkey from Shrek, I should be good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

When you get this to work, hit me up for some venture capital.

[–] bamfic 3 points 1 week ago

For profit that you can kick back a chunk of as campaign donations

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

"I can't be at financial peace if I have to pay for every movie I want to watch"

[–] dyathinkhesaurus 1 points 1 week ago

You're not repackaging and selling it on for profit tho. That's different and thus illegal because reasons