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Meet the woman who put 50 million stolen articles online so you can read them for free
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2025
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When a regular person makes something available that shouldnt be behind a paywall to begin with it's stealing. When a billionaire or company uses ai to gather data from paid sources or just straight out plagiarises it's just maximising profits.
Hey hey hey, hold on just a second. It's not called "maximizing profits", we don't do that! It's called ✨innovation✨
disruption 🤌
democratization 🫡
Using public information to create something new is not even a little the same as copying private information and then making it public.