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Re:Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright in... by brightlancer on Sunday July 09, 2023 @08:08PM (#36660423)
> You can currently download any copyright work from any pirate site and be free of all consequences, and this has always been so.

No.

By virtue of "download" of a file, you are making a copy of it which is in violation of US copyright (and lots of countries.

You're unlikely to be sued or prosecuted for it, but that doesn't make it legal.

Re:Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright in... by krainboltgreene on Sunday July 09, 2023 @08:26PM (#36660551)
This is just completely untrue.