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Wouldn't this be a civil case, not a criminal one?
Italian law allows for up to three years in jail for "promotion of pirated copyrighted materials." Italy generally has some fucked up laws, like ISPs required to block DNS addresses by request of Copyright holders for blocking of illegal live sports in very short time frames, and those blocks are not even required to be listed somewhere, which has already caused some issues like when they blocked a cloudflare ip, causing completely innocent sites and services suddenly being blocked in the whole country. Recently they demanded that google Poison their DNS servers using that same law.
Italy is the MPAA's wet dream manifest
E: i forgot that they also managed to block the entire google drive domain in italy because there were some downloads there lol
E2: i was not completely up to date: In January, the Court of Milan found that Cloudflare's CDN, DNS server, and WARP VPN were facilitating piracy. The court threatened Cloudflare with fines of up to 10,000 euros per day if it did not begin blocking the sites.
They may as well block the entire internet since there's pirated content everywhere. They should especially focus on blocking AI sites, those are IP theft machines.
i'll paste my vision for datasets and LLM here, not that i would live to see this:
Since GenAI-models and the datasets they are trained on resemble an interactive snapshot of human culture, I believe that the datasets should belong to an UN organization like UNESCO, corporations/NGOs/people should be able to license them to build their models (ev. with "community models" provided free for personal use), and the licence fees should be used to subsidize culture. This plus an UBI would make sure that artists don't have to starve, corporations can use them to try to make a profit, and everyone else can use them to create for their own or their communities use. Artists that don't want to go into the datasets have that right too, but also won't have access to that financial pool (this shouldn't be the only pool).
IP law in its current form is only a weapon for corporations to punish people, like when the RIAA sued small fish into bankruptcy for downloading a few shitty pop songs; they are also often used to dismantle privacy or push more surveillance, and i can't defend those laws as they stand. Fuck copyrights.