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minus-squareNotNotMikelinkfedilinkEnglish74•1 year agoI was looking for resources for a custom LLM and noticed they had a ton of copyrighted books and wondered to myself how the heck that was legal I guess this answers that
minus-square@cafeinux@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglish88•1 year agoJust like regular libraries have copyrighted books: they lend them to one person at a time.
minus-squareNotNotMikelinkfedilinkEnglish29•1 year agoThey definitely weren’t monitoring the one at a time rule… I downloaded the file and now have it forever
minus-square@sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoSounds like a you problem. ;)
minus-squareNotNotMikelinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoHow does that make sense? How does putting a “Download PDF” button on their site with no restrictions make this a “me” problem?
minus-square@sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoYou should obviously delete those downloaded files like a good boy.
I was looking for resources for a custom LLM and noticed they had a ton of copyrighted books and wondered to myself how the heck that was legal
I guess this answers that
Just like regular libraries have copyrighted books: they lend them to one person at a time.
They definitely weren’t monitoring the one at a time rule… I downloaded the file and now have it forever
Sounds like a you problem. ;)
How does that make sense? How does putting a “Download PDF” button on their site with no restrictions make this a “me” problem?
You should obviously delete those downloaded files like a good boy.