[thor-rodrigues]

I don't understand your line of thought. The question with Kim was not about open-source, was about copyright and intellectual property all along.

As other comments noted, the man literally made millions distributing copyrighted material, while completely aware of what he was doing.

[snapcaster]

people used to be embarrassed in forums like this about being so pro-government. Tech has been completely captured by normies

[enriquec]

yup, what a bummer

[retinaros]

chatgpt is doing just that and they re being praised for it. hell they even break deal with gov agencies

[SXX]

But it's run by Altman and Microsoft. They bring money to US so allowed to do it.

[ilrwbwrkhv]

No he didn't. He made money through ads. The fact that copyright stuff was on the platform doesn't mean he should be arrested.

[ajsnigrutin]

On the other hand, the straming/video 'services', are literally stealing stuff you bought from them. How is that better? If there's a "buy"/"purchase" button, the movie is yours... it's not a "rent" button, where they can take it away whenever they want.

Kim is a modern day robin hood. Illegal, criminal, yada yada? Sure. Is he "bad" for the people? Well... that's very debatable.

[enriquec]

no. he gave people a way to send stuff and they sent what they wanted.

[SpicyLemonZest]

Have you read the indictment? It makes a pretty strong case that he knew copyright infringement was the cash cow of his business model, structuring the business and lying to copyright holders in order to make the infringement more effective. Deleting links without removing the infringing content from the server is the big smoking gun to me - there’s really no legitimate reason to do that.

[enriquec]

disagree

[snapcaster]

So what? are you a record executive? why do you feel so strongly about this? what is motivating you to simp for the empire so hard?

[SpicyLemonZest]

I don’t think this is an honest question and I’m not going to engage with it.

[throwadobe]

That's the mother of cop outs. It's an absolutely honest question.

[SpicyLemonZest]

Perhaps we're using terminology differently. When I say "honest question", I mean a question that someone wants a straightforward answer to, perhaps as a starting point for further discussion.

"What is motivating you to simp for the empire so hard?" is not such a question. Having been in such conversations before, if I responded with an honest answer like "I generally think the US is a pretty good country" or "I feel that it's important for criminals to be caught and punished", I'm quite confident that the original commenter would respond with personal insults and invective.