How did he embrace the change? I just remember years of lawsuits and whatnot.
He sued his fans and no he has no fans?
He sued Yale… at the time, I thought “you can’t stop this, ever!” And then Napster shut down and it was sad.
Re:Stable Diffusion 1.5
by learn-forever on Friday October 21, 2022 @01:09PM
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People are now happily listening to Metallica on streaming services
They did legislate the problem away. Sure, Spotify and YouTube play a part in the reduced music piracy today. But it also helps that all of the music piracy sites have been killed, and the only ones left are shady enough that you fear malware if you go there.
It's streaming that killed piracy. And even piracy was only partially to avoid paying money: It was a huge UX win over CDs.
The iPod would not have had the impact it had without piracy.
There's no one single aspect that reduced piracy. There's multiple aspects that played their part
Re:Stable Diffusion 1.5
by capableweb on Friday October 21, 2022 @05:21AM
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Worth remembering that both Spotify and Youtube got started with pirated music on their services and then worked it into fully legal platforms.
There's still tons of pirated content on YouTube.
Is it legal? I don't know. I guess they have the fig-leaf of taking down copyrighted content when asked.
Fig-leaf not withstanding, if Google (YouTube's owner) didn't have such deep pockets I'd be amazed they didn't get sued in to oblivion like Napster.
There is a load of pirated content on there, but YouTube have successfully cowed every creator with a decent-sized audience into fearing more than a second or two of copyrighted music appearing in their videos.
The point is that YouTube has managed to survive and even thrive despite hosting tons of content which infringes on copyright.
YouTube didn't get sued early on because it didn't have any money to sue. After it was acquired, it was sued, and the current system is the agreement that Google and the rights holders came to (which has been incredibly profitable for both sides).
They won't legislate AI away, just training them on copyrighted works without attribution and license. As it should be.
Countries that don't do that will be just as successful in the world marketplace as are countries that don't respect copyright.
We'll go thru the same with AI but ultimately it won't be stopped. As long as there's no world wide coordination limiting its impact, AI will continue its course.