the best thing ever is the "you wouldn't download a car" ads used copyrighted music without permission. You can't make this shit up.
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2026
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I believe that's a myth, though I understand the font used was a rip off of a licensed font. Which is just as funny.
I also think that no car was ever downloaded. Very funny.
This is actually an interesting topic that I've had to consistently inform people about. It has never been illegal in the USA to download and keep any kind of media. What is illegal is
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the redistribution of media, meaning "seeding" and giving away copies of pirated media
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using stolen works for profits, such as a cracked/unlicensed software or selling modified works of others
So like 99% of what people refer to as "piracy" is legal.
And they can’t enforce anything, so they try to manipulate with some ethical-sounding statements.
It's illegal, just not criminally
No, it's not. The uploader is the one violating copyright, not the downloader.
And further, that was the entire point of the DMCA. Circumventing whatever anti-copying restrictions were on the thing so you could copy it specifically is illegal.
I am just training the AI in my brain.
I have been a proud pirate :)
being a pirate is all right with me!
On Hacker News, Microsoft tells you to pirate Harry Potter for some AI fun: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067759 (instructions here: https://archive.is/D9vEN)
And that is why I will keep doing it.
If it's okay to pirate for the sake of training AI, can I set up a model to train at a particular speed - say, 1 byte per hour 😈 asking for a friend obvi
I dunno, been doing it my whole life with more success than Nvidia 🤷
I once tried to steal a car too, and will totally steal your software and games
They should at least be forced to delete the training data and delete the model.
Forced by whom though? The Trump administration and its courts are in the pocket of Nividia and all the billionaire techbros, they aren't going to force them to do anything.
Snake Plisken vibes.
I don't really get the 'gotcha' vibe here. Has Nvidia ever been in the game against downloading?
If anything, they benefitted from more people playing more videogames on their gpu's