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Re:Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright in... by slowmovintarget on Sunday July 09, 2023 @11:05PM (#36661577)
Are you forgetting all the DMCA lawsuits slapping individuals who downloaded MP3s with tens of thousands of dollars? These were not corporations, these were teenagers still living with their parents who pulled music files off the likes of Napster.

The DMCA does allow harassment by copyright holders to individuals suspected of infringement. It's just that most people like authors wouldn't blow their legal budget suing kids.

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Re:Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright in... by ericd on Monday July 10, 2023 @04:04PM (#36672185)
My understanding is that the issue there was that they were simultaneously sharing those MP3s, as they were downloading them. Which is to say, I think the person you're responding to is correct about the difference between sharing and downloading, but I'm not a lawyer.
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