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Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI

631 points · 623 comments · papergirl

handoflixue · 1790499975 · focus · HN ↗
It's wild how much weight "they're destroying jobs" has.
I dare say that car manufacturers are aware of their impact on the horse and buggy industry. Calculator manufacturers wrecked the livelihood of mathematicians and accountants.
Technology is in the business of putting people out of work, by inventing better ways of doing things. Or rather, any time you invent a better way of doing things, that's fundamentally going to disrupt all the businesses built around older technologies.
1. cisc · 1790500048 · focus · HN ↗
  > Technology is in the business of putting people out of work, by inventing better ways of doing things
  Why is book piracy a better way of doing things?
  1. Jtarii · 1790500891 · focus · HN ↗
    That is a pretty irrelevant point considering they could have just bought all the books and we would still be in the same situation.
    Obviously the authors should sue them to bankruptcy though.
    literalAardvark · 1790505229 · focus · HN ↗
    One of the commonly mentioned annoyances of copyright is that they really couldn't have bought all the books.
    Getting sued for fair value is the easier way out. Especially after a few billion in funding.

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