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But the issue here is not that it "might be used"

> While emulation software is not illegal, a surprising number of these devices ship chock-full of pre-loaded ROMs—the channel showed multiple Sony and Nintendo games running on the device

Honestly I feel that in the US this would have possibly been risky as well

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If we still feel like individuals must be punished for such things let's start by dismantling all the bigcorps that downloaded e.g. anna's archive (openai, meta, for starters).

It would be easier to take the suggestion seriously if there was some proportionality. People aren’t being executed for copyright infringement, and presumably there should be remedies for corporate misbehavior that sponsors of destroying the company.

Fine, jail the company for 3 years. Or at least the executives.

Given that the piracy charges can be fined as low as €50, it can be discussed proportionately.

I totally agree that the AI companies should be accountable for their intellectual property leaching.

Anna's archive contains 52,875,045 books, 98,598,895 papers.

So that's be, at the least, a 7.5B fine. But I'd argue the scope of pirating over 150 million items for commercial use warrants a harsher sentence than the minimum.

Companies aren't living things and therefore cannot be killed. "Destroying" a company is a much more morally sound outcome then someone dying.

Also, we do not literally need to "destroy" a company. If we think those jobs or IP is valuable, just nationalize it. Everyone keeps their jobs, the IP lives on, and for a lot of companies they now enjoy competent leadership. When ready, the company can be resold to the private sector.

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