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Cool: an individual ignoring IP for their own purposes or individuals sharing things they own with others

Cringe: Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, or Meta doing the same

None of the later should get to claim 'But we're hackers!' from an ethical standpoint.

They aren't -- they're shareholder-benefiting for-profit corporations (OpenAI obviously included).

The “for profit” isn’t even the entire story. The scale of the theft is unprecedented. It’s the combination between stealing everything and only for their profit that makes this impossible to defend.

Cool: an individual, or an organization, not believing in IP, reading what they want, and sharing what they want.

Cringe: an individual, or an organization, fierce defenders of their own IP and regular DMCA abusers, stealing the IP of others in order to sell it themselves.

There's a lot of twisting you have to do to make these two things the same. These people would happily deliver takedown requests to the original producers of IP if they knew they could get away with it. In fact, they long to.

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