I'll copy the whole announcement here for those who don't want to click:

I regret to inform everyone that my copy of QBittorrent escaped its sandbox last night and downloaded a whole bunch of content owned by major corporations, and then my copy of Jellyfin broke containment and added those unfortunately-downloaded media files to its various libraries. I'm conducting an internal investigation to figure out how this happened, which will involve consuming these media files until the answers become apparent. Thank you for your cooperation during this trying time.

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[–] 51 points 1 day ago

It's just a copy. The original still exists somewhere. That's not stealing.

Reverse Sony logic.

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  • [–] 103 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I mean it’s OK - you’re not copying it, you’re using it to train an intelligence.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Yes, my own personal human intelligence. I promise training it will bring value to me and the community.

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  • [–] 128 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Just feed it to an AI, that makes it OK. I think having a local speech model on your phone in the same room with you while watching should be sufficient.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I have this new AI tool. Free and open source, model and all, and extremely CPU-efficient. Basically you feed it the training data (like some New York Times articles, but it can be any text or binary), and it can produce a 1:1 output when prompted. I call it "copi"; can I get my five trillion tax dollars now?

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  • [–] 32 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Warning! ⚠️ do not consume!

    See the real loophole is that I have de-registered myself as a conscious observer. In the eyes of the government, I have never seen a movie, or watched a TV show, or listened to an album.

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  • [–] 63 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    The Jellyfin instance, which normally just plays Ubuntu and other distro ISOs, of course.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago

    Someone give this person a congressional hearing and billions of dollars to burn

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    It's too advanced to be released

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  • [–] [S] 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    I hope this is not against rules 4 and 6, but... I fear it might be?

    If you want me to remove the post just tell me (or report it to the mods, of course).

    I'm only sharing this because I found it very funny :)

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    [–] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 child)

    Does that person explain what exactly they mean by "breaking confinement" resp "escaping sandboxing" and how it happened?

    edit: I clicked the link now and there is no explanation. I'm not sure they're even serious. I think this is some kind of netizen dada.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago* (4 children)

    end-users are rarely prosecuted or sued over piracy so idk why corporations wouldn't get the same deal.

    this is a big nothingburger if you wanna be honest.

    piracy is much like drugs, where the occasional dealer gets nabbed if they're too ostentatious but otherwise things just go on and on and on and on.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    end-users are rarely prosecuted or sued over piracy

    That wasn't always true. The RIAA sued many people over music downloads (via bittorent since they're technically hosting at the same time as downloading). They only stopped once the major studios figured out it would cost less to force the ISPs to do it for them.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    I remember a time when the gaming community's darling, CDPR, sent lawyers to people's homes, demanding they pay because they pirated The Witcher 2.

    I don't know how times have changes, but it definitely happened depending on when and where you lived.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Because corporations aren't pirating for personzl consumption, they are pirating to ingest huge amounts of data for commercial use.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    I would be okay with it if it was all leading to a post-money society and it allowed art and trchnooogy to be created for whomever to access. But it ain't, someone else is just getting rich off it.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    I can't tell whether you're kidding or not.
    In Germany you absolutely get subpoenaed for the slightest copyright infringement. There a law firm called "Waldorf Frommer" that does all the dirty work for the so called rights holders.

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