The ruling explicitly does not allow pirating. It only lets you run ML training on legally acquired media.
They still haven’t ruled on copyright infringement from pirating the media used to train, and they haven’t ruled on copyright status of outputs (what it takes to be considered transformative).
This is judge Alsup, same guy who ruled in Oracle vs Google
All I’m hearing is that pirating is A-OK as long as you claim it’s for model training
The ruling explicitly does not allow pirating. It only lets you run ML training on legally acquired media.
They still haven’t ruled on copyright infringement from pirating the media used to train, and they haven’t ruled on copyright status of outputs (what it takes to be considered transformative).
This is judge Alsup, same guy who ruled in Oracle vs Google
Edit: https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/26/two-judges-same-district-opposite-conclusions-the-messy-reality-of-ai-training-copyright-cases/
Sorry, but no. That’s just the paper-thin excuse.
Pirating, like pretty much anything else that’s sometimes a crime in the current US, is A-OK if you can buy enough judges and politicians.
I just put a thin blue line sticker on my case and full send that bitch.