There are three positions around the usage of of shadow libraries.
1- Should we develop this argument into more discussion as society and humans around the knowledge publication and the publication industry greed and the rent-seeking business model.
2- Big Corporation shouldn't just ignore the copyright law while maintaining the strongest copyright protections and going after small folks.
3- The usual argument about how LLMs training is different from people actually using pirated textbook because it is expensive (college and learning is hard and expensive specially in places like Africa).
These are different angles and I think we can try to address all of them as they are not exclusive. There are good arguments around point 3 on two sides. I don't think there is a good argument why we should allow the status quo regarding the first point though. For two, it is more complicated to even discuss specially on HN.
1- Should we develop this argument into more discussion as society and humans around the knowledge publication and the publication industry greed and the rent-seeking business model.
2- Big Corporation shouldn't just ignore the copyright law while maintaining the strongest copyright protections and going after small folks.
3- The usual argument about how LLMs training is different from people actually using pirated textbook because it is expensive (college and learning is hard and expensive specially in places like Africa).
These are different angles and I think we can try to address all of them as they are not exclusive. There are good arguments around point 3 on two sides. I don't think there is a good argument why we should allow the status quo regarding the first point though. For two, it is more complicated to even discuss specially on HN.