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“Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney (htxt.co.za)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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  • Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney.
  • The companies allege that the platform used its copyright protected material to train its model and that users can generate content that infringes on Disney and Universal’s copyrighted material.
  • The scathing lawsuit requests that Midjourney be made to pay up for the damage it has caused the two companies.
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago (3 children)

You should totally play the game, but make sure that you pirate it so your money doesn't go to the thief who stole the rights from the creators.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Would it not then be better to buy a shady key to financially hurt the company?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

You mean cause a chargeback or something? You'd have to find a sufficiently shady seller, the key might get revoked, also you're supporting another ilk of scumbags.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How so? Isn't it the same for the financial purposes?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Many times these keys are obtained illegitimately and they end up being refunded. In other cases the key is bought from another region so the devs do get some money, but far less than they would from a regular purchase.

I'm not sure exactly how the illegitimate keys are obtained, though. Maybe in trying to not pay the publisher you end up rewarding someone who steals peoples' credit cards or something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Oh that's unfortunate. Well I don't mind not supporting people like that so I'll give it a go

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's not actually a very fun game to play, reading the lore or watching a video of someone else play is sufficient.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Disagree, I think being in the pilot seat is important. The immersion of control amplifies the experience.