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   Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 23:52:59 JST Erik Uden 🍑

   lmao, the FBI is mad that the Z-Library founders are having holidays

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 23:57:02 JST SuperDicq

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     @ErikUden@mastodon.de Yeah that just looks like regular holiday photos to me, nothing extravagant.
     
     I know people here on a median salary who own a little boat or a caravan.

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     Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Feb-2025 20:41:21 JST Erik Uden 🍑

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     OpenAI directly downloaded 80+ Terabytes of books from Z-Lib to train AI models, meaning they're allowing a public and illegal redistribution of the entirety of those works, and even paywalling most of it to make money off of these historic works.

     Hey FBI, take down their page too?

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     Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Feb-2025 20:41:22 JST Erik Uden 🍑

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     you can check this yourself here: http://z-lib.org

     I do not think these people are cybercriminals. They are the best we got to help information preservation (next to the Internet Archive) in the 21st century.

     The fact they had to mention that these people are Russian also strikes me as odd. They don't even seem to be government affiliated, I'm pretty sure the FBI would've said so if there was even a slight hint of that.

     While OpenAI can freely use all copyrighted material and make billions off of it, these people giving it out for free are supposed “criminals”. Aaron Schwartz didn't die for this.

     Rich Felker repeated this.