1. Reddit sells its api for high and is about to go for an IPO, its economy bases entirely on the data made by the users/communities. It is the work of the public, get robbed by a small group of individuals. A living example of capitalism.

  2. Fediverse isn’t enough to secure the publicity and usage of public data. What if the host of Lemmy instance also releases the snapshots of all the posts and modlogs, everyday, in the form of bittorrent? Only by doing so, we are safe from the host erasing public knowledge and data brokers.

  • GolfNovemberUniform
    2·
    4 months ago

    DRM is not the only option. If they want to restrict the usage, they can just write a custom license for their publications. And wait isn’t the problem with DRM is that it uses unique device IDs?

    • ramble81@lemm.ee
      21·
      4 months ago

      And how well does that work in games? “You can’t cheat, please don’t, pinky promise?” It’s the same with LLMs. They see data, they parse it, licenses be damned. It’s as bad as those people trying to link to the license they released their text under or on Facebook with people posting “I don’t approve my text to be used… “.

      • GolfNovemberUniform
        3·
        4 months ago

        Well if someone breaks the license, they can be lawsuited. But yea if you don’t want your data to ever be used for anything, public is not an option. It’s the same with irl speeches