You're very obviously missing a key point here. It's rather simple: pirating is integral to "AI", as it is of the utmost importance with regards to its optimization and even to building its basic functionalities. It will never cease to happen nor is it part of some "preliminary" process in which executives "ignore silly legal matters" in order to kick-start their projects only to discard those practices once they eventually take off. Comparisons to YouTube, Spotify, etc., are invalid for this very reason.
I should have been very clear that "silly legal matters" was meant tongue in cheek. I do not think that this is cool at all.
You raise a good point. However, both Spotify and YouTube benefited from network effects and being the biggest guerrilla in the room. Can you remove the initial illegality from their later success, since the latter dependend on the prior?
What seems inevitable is that some deal is made with major rights holders, the little guy gets screwed, as has happened before.
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You're very obviously missing a key point here. It's rather simple: pirating is integral to "AI", as it is of the utmost importance with regards to its optimization and even to building its basic functionalities. It will never cease to happen nor is it part of some "preliminary" process in which executives "ignore silly legal matters" in order to kick-start their projects only to discard those practices once they eventually take off. Comparisons to YouTube, Spotify, etc., are invalid for this very reason.