[stale2002]

> The US government has worked hard to make the lives of copyright infringers miserable for years

They really have not. The fact that I can download any movie in the world right now, and use all of the open source models on my home PC proves that.

I am sure there are some random one off cases of infringers being punished, but it mostly doesn't happen.

Especially if we are talking about the entire tech industry.

The government isn't going to shutdown every single tech startup in the US. Because they are all using these open source AI models.

The government isn't going to be able to confiscate everyone's gamer PCs. The weights can already be run locally.

[beeboobaa3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

[stale2002]

My point stands. Thats like one guy. Thats not ""an entire industry gets shutdown by the government".

That was my point. Sure, they might go after like one guy or one company. They aren't going to take out half of the tech startups in all of the US though. They also aren't going to confiscate everyone's gamer PCs.

I also think its funny that you literally posted a wikipedia page, where in the page itself it contains the "illegal" numbers.

So that proves my entire point. Your best example, is apparently an example where I can access the "illegal" information on a literal public wikipedia page!

[beeboobaa3]

> Thats like one guy

Also known as an example

> So that proves my entire point

Your point is that you can't use it commercially? Great! We're aligned, then.