(Enn) Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: The only way I would ever lionize the RIAA would involve literal lions.

In 2020, under lockdown, I was in calls with some amazing lawyers to push back against the RIAA's ridiculous claim that youtube-dl was illegal. github.blog/2020-11-16-s... That is to say, if you are cheering them on now because you hate AI, you forget what copyright maximalism is. Just block me.

The RIAA lawsuit against Suno and Udio is so so so bad. Not only does it not make sense, it actually goes against what the RIAA itself has been arguing in court lately.

Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is backgithub.blog Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown.

Again, the only thing copyright maximalism can deliver is a world where AI models are very expensive and licensed from the likes of Getty and Universal Studios, not a world without AI. Here it is spelled out in the Ars Technica article. arstechnica.com/information-... bsky.app/profile/fili...

The only way I would ever lionize the RIAA would involve literal lions.

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