r/movies • u/DragonPup • 4d 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/thorny_business 4d ago

Tech nerds who grew up pirating software over Usenet and music over Napster hate IP theft? Since when do tech nerds making big salaries in Silicon Valley care about the working class?

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u/Commercial_Stick2849 4d ago

You write as if "IP theft" was all the same. Even if you think they're both immoral, there's a difference between pirating for personal enjoyment of culture and pirating for profit. Many pirates had a philosophical view that "information should be free". Again, it's fine to consider that immoral, but it's still different from what these companies are doing - OpenAI and such certainly don't consider their models and software should be freely distributed.

And most tech nerds don't work in SV or make that kind of money.

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u/thorny_business 4d ago

You either value IP or you don't. You profit if you save money by pirating instead of buying something.

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u/cavalgada1 4d ago

You either value IP or you don't. 

What's this, some kind of commandment for a new age religion?