[ghoward]

I am an Open Source developer. My code is not on GitHub and never will be.

If my code was uploaded on GitHub, I would DMCA it because of Copilot, but it wouldn't matter because the information is already in the model. So the DMCA does not help here.

The only way it would help is if I could DMCA the entire model and force them to retrain without my code. As it stands, this lawsuit is the only way for GitHub to be reined in; I don't have the resources to do so on my own.

IANAL.

Also, about high impact, suppose Copilot has 1 million users that use it on average 10 times a day, 5 days a week. You claim that less than 1% of uses of Copilot would result in copyright violation. Let's assume 0.1%. How many times would copyright violation happen per day? It would happen 10,000 times per day. For five days a week.

It would take a mere twenty weeks (less than six months) to reach a million violations.

That seems impactful.