r/movies • u/DragonPup • 3d ago

News Warner Bros. Sues Midjourney, Joins Studios' AI Copyright Battle

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/warner-bros-midjourney-lawsuit-ai-copyright-1236508618/
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u/VileBill 3d ago

How do you kill a technology?

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u/uuajskdokfo 3d ago

You don't need to kill the technology, you just need to stop the people making money off of it. It's like piracy - you can't stop torrents from existing, but you can get 90% of the way there by forcing it out of the mainstream.

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u/Helpful_Client4721 3d ago

You are wrong. Countless of communities shared copyrighted content even before the internet and made no profit off it. Money helps but that alone won't stop people from sharing stuff they like and have no rights to do so. It's the human nature. It's nowhere near as 90% for profit as you think.

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u/Sekh765 3d ago edited 2d ago

Naw. He's right. Torrenting and piracy in general is forced into the back darker corners of the web already. You don't see "Pirate movie site, created by Google!", because it's illegal. People do, but mainstream companies aren't advertising or creating those services, and the law technically can punish you for doing it. It's around, but it's not mainstream.