"This activity enabled him to commercially exploit protected material, generating income at the expense of legitimate artists and businesses within the music industry.”
You mean how OpenAI et al have been doing for the past few years?
No, it’s fine for OpenAl to do it, because they are wealthy. Rules only exist for poor people.
For the CD guy, the proper pockets were not greased prior to engaging in illicit activity.
Pockets get lined (with cash presumably), palms get greased, unless you’re lining the pockets with grease, in which case carry on.
but that’s… different!
Dude should’ve been putting out remixes of books and lyrics.
A FOUR YEAR INVESTIGATION.
Was justice served in any just way?
Were the millions of $ and thousands of hours worth it?
Who authorized the absurd use of taxpayer money that could otherwise been used to stop real criminals and real crimes affecting real people?
If this guy made a million on these CDs, only a grand would have gone to any artist.
Justice is not blind, it is being fucked by corporations.
Meanwhile, AI companies get a free pass to steal every work online.
If it’s not consistent, it’s not justice.
Commenting on the sentencing, a council spokesperson said of Kearns “This activity enabled him to commercially exploit protected material, generating income at the expense of legitimate artists and businesses within the music industry.” A local councilor also highlighted the potential for generating “significant illicit profit” from the trade in counterfeit and unauthorized goods. They hoped that the sentencing of Kearns, even though it is suspended, would deter other pirate traders.
it’s very confusing, just how big is the pirate cd market? i wouldn’t take them if you gave them to me for free
yet they make it sound like he’s generating millions of dollars
I have a waist-high CD rack with music and games that’s collecting dust for 15 years. If I finally throw it away, and someone picks it up from a garbage bin, will I become a pirate too?
It all had to funnel through their lazer tag empire.
Could have been cds sold to stores to play in pa speakers, the rights to play music like that is a lot more expensive
generating income at the expense of legitimate artists and businesses
sounds exactly like the music industry …
Somebody is still purchasing burned CD compilations, even in 2018??
Unless he had some of the rarest lost media ever, I can’t see him making more than £100 per year
There’s still a few shops that sell them in Singas.
too bad he didn’t use AI somehow to skirt the copyright claims.
this old but not totally abandoned physical medium.
Damn…
So those FBI warnings at the beginning of my VHS movie tapes were true after all.
You don’t get those on the pirated versions :)
Doing it for the game.
I thought this was a headline from LA or Australia…