Rights holders of Mickey Mouse? The character from the famous public domain animated short Steamboat Willie?
(Pedant disclaimer: I know, later versions of the character are still under copyright protection and Disney still has trademark rights even for the SW version)
About as many as a bittorrent client, i.e. a rounding error.
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We're anti Meta getting away with crimes that decent people of the society get fucked for.
P2P vs FTP or whatever is not the point. Subtitling the article "Lawsuit: Meta may have seeded porn to minors while hiding piracy for AI training." (emphasis mine) is misleading as it implies they were seeding the files with the intention or purpose to make them available to children.
Also, I find it disingenuous to pretend like seeding a torrent originally published by someone else is the same thing as publishing the file on an FTP site yourself, even if there's legal precedent for treating it that way. Even if the bytes of the file are flowing out from your computer, that doesn't mean you're the one who made the file available, "to minors" or otherwise.
Yea, it's not good of Ars to report the shameless "think of the kids" spin uncritically.
Here I thought this was just some rando with a substack but it looks like the backstory on this guy is pretty extensive. He's admitted to the sexual harassment allegations, so that's confirmed. Vice cut off ties with him, so I'm glad to see powerful men facing consequences for their actions for once, at least as long as they're left wing columnists which is still something.
The most extensive coverage on the drama seems to come from human vulture Ian Miles Cheong, who reported that then former and future first failson of the United States Donald Trump jr. was also paying attention to this rare case of a sex pest getting his just deserts.
I couldn't find anything regarding the transphobia claims, but I didn't feel like digging too deep either. I wouldn't be shocked if a smarmy marxist from Normal Island turns out to have Normal Island opinions on trans people, especially given the random Sonichu snipe in the OP.
This is not a place of honor…
Oh, right. I forgot the obligatory comment.
@dgerard why did you make the header image so sexy again?
They called the idea nutty, even seedy, but the Copilot mascot turned out to be a seminal piece of marketing that spawned generations to follow. This was a huge release that left a lot of the more conservative viewers clutching their pearl necklaces. Cream of the crop. Busting once and for all the myth that Microsoft isn't a fertile place for breeding marketing innovation. Coming out of nowhere, a climactic moment in the 2025 AI summer. Truly a moment to refract on during the upcoming period. All the money they've splooged on AI is finally coming to fruition and not just blown off and swallowed. The success will surely rub off on the AI industry as a hole or at least jack up Microsoft shares with vigorous excitement. And other semen jokes.
Sniveling H—lerite bag of tepid farts.