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1. kccqzy+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-06-24 22:22:29
The copyright holder. That person was not made whole because of the time value of money. I stole $1000 from you in January and returned it to you in June: why should you happily give me a zero interest loan?
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2. gbacon+df[view] [source] 2025-06-25 00:45:37
>>kccqzy+(OP)
No royalty contract is getting an author a thousand bucks per sale. If you have to wildly exaggerate to make your point, then the point isn’t compelling.

Books have a resale market. Every “lost sale” isn’t necessarily of a new purchase from a bookstore or Amazon.

Copyright has a place. Rent-seeking authors attacking LLM owners is not a sympathetic case. Said authors are demanding to have their ideas relegated to unknown backwaters. It makes the authors worse off. It makes the community poorer. Cui bono?

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3. kccqzy+ao[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-06-25 02:34:24
>>gbacon+df
We are not talking about a single sale. We are talking about millions of books.
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