Would be a terrible shame if lots of people opted out.

If you are a EU citizen you might also want to write a complaint to [email protected] because they are collecting your personally identifiable information in machine-readable form which they are distributing to third parties.

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    I never really needed any justification, but ever since AI companies just take stuff illegally, and that openly, it has become my justification to just pirate the shit out of everything.

    (Excluding indie games of developers I like).

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      It should have been anyways. Like what the fuck were you all doing on the internet. Trying to sell your stupid art. Helping corporations steal data and build pay walls so you can earn $500/month selling your kitchy Garfield key chains. The internet should have always been about data replication and sharing. It’s too late to put that cat back in the bag. It was suppose to be stopped 20 years ago. Now we have all this stuff ruining the world and bringing back nazis. But at least the lefty capitalist artist sold some key chains

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        But at least the lefty capitalist artist sold some key chains

        Selling your shit and getting paid doesn’t make you into a capitalist. At most you’re an artisan, if you own your tools and you get paid for your final product rather than your labour hours.

        To be a capitalist you necessarily need to own capital. In the example you picked you’d need to own a factory where you underpay people to and keep the surplus from all the keychains they produce.

        And regardless of what you meant, you’re absolutely barking at the wrong tree here, market consolidation and monopolies predate the internet, and they would have always had the final say in how we shape our infrastructure and share shit online under capitalism.