By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026Crucially, *Betamax* ensured that last year's tech lottery winners wouldn't get to prevent *next year's* winners from emerging. 17/ 11673
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026This year's admirals are *always* last year's pirates, and they insist that what *they* did to their predecessors was progress, while anyone who tries to do the same thing to *them* is a thief. 18/ 234672
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026The sheet music composers condemned the record player, recording artists decried the radio, broadcasters sued over cable and cable operators sued over VCRs. This never stopped: Sony - the company that invented the Betamax and defended it all the way to the Supreme Court - went on to sue Napster! 19 323527
Pía @pia-alea.bsky.social · 26/08/2026As in: www.404media.co/openai-furio...404media.coOpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From UsOpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation. 0323
