• andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun
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    1 year ago

    As much as I want to see Elon humbled a bit, I would rather the music industry not be getting a dime from this and that schadenfreude be satisfied by pure self destruction.

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    As much as I hate twitter, I think this is a bad thing. As far as I can tell, the suit is about those uploading music to twitter, which counts as sharing of content and shouldn’t be illegal.

    Unless I am missing something, if the lawsuit went through, it would be a terrible thing for everyone.

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      I don’t like Elon as much as the next person, but I dislike the music industry cronies even more. Yeah, I’d agree this is bad.

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      When I read the article basically every other social platform has struck licensing deals with record companies because it adds monetary value to their sites… they aren’t trying to stop content creators they are trying to get a piece of the money pie Facebook, youtube and twitch make off of content that’s uploaded… I don’t know if it would have further reaching consequences but Twitter was in the middle of a deal when Elon took over and somehow this got pushed to the side and the record companies are now suing twitter…

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      As far as I can tell, the suit is about those uploading music to twitter, which counts as sharing of content and shouldn’t be illegal.

      It’s unclear here if you are using “should” in the descriptive or prescriptive.

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    @withersailor Is Twitter paying for anything? From what I hear they don’t pay rent for their buildings anymore, they don’t pay Google or Amazon for their web services anymore. They withhold payments that were meant to go to charities, …

    For me it seems as if Elon thinks that he doesn’t need to play by the rules and that he is invulnerable.