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Children, please remember:

- RIAA bad, Musk good.

- Artists bad, Altman good.

- Authors bad, Amodei good.

The RIAA is good? The outfit which opened legislation for outrageous sums against random teenagers over a couple of dozen songs? The outfit among others waging war on general-purpose computing? The outfit whose reason to exist is more or less to enclose and privatise the cultural commons that belongs to everyone?

I don't like the big AI firms either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to side with literal IP troll outfits.

The RIAA is indeed quite bad, regardless of Musk. They only exist to further make of copyright a dystopian nightmare.

I guess some people love DRM and further losing control over our owned devices.

It's funny how everyone abandoned the whole "information wants to be free" thing as soon as the AI companies actually indexed the world's information and made it easily accessible.

I think copyright and patents made sense, make sense, and will continue to make sense, but I also think that as the pace of development accelerates the durations for both need to reduce. The products of intellectual work are valuable and it should be worth investing lots of time and effort into producing it - they just shouldn't be worth that much.

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