GEMA is the official music publishing collections organisation in Germany. They’re big, they’re powerful, they throw their weight around, and a lot of people think they’re dicks. Large swathes of Y…
  • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
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    18 days ago

    “Never thought I’d die fighting side by side with GEMA.”

    “What about side by side with a friend?”

    “Lol good one get fucked.”

  • nightsky@awful.systemsEnglish
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    19 days ago

    OpenAI has already threatened to leave Europe if it gets regulated too hard. Imagine GEMA being the ones to drive the chatbots out of Germany.

    …I didn’t think I’d ever end up cheering on GEMA.

    • Michael Valkenberg@chaos.social
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      19 days ago

      @nightsky I will still not cheer them on. Just because they are right now a bunch of dicks at somebody who deserves it doesn’t mean they are any less of a bunch of dicks. If they take down OpenAI - good for us. For them it‘s just a side-effect of their general bunch‘o‘dickery.

    • nomad@infosec.pubEnglish
      14·
      19 days ago

      Its still innovation. Driving away innovation is never a good idea. :/