Pirate News – Meta: File sharing is fair use

Joe, Steve and James discuss our upcoming events, California’s attempt to force OS vendors to add age verification, Meta claims fair use for piracy, the fallout from the US military use of machine learning tools and using your opponent’s surveillance cameras against them.

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Some links we mentioned:

• California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup;
• Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues;
• Anthropic’s Statement To The ‘Department Of War’ Reads Like A Hostage Note Written In Business Casual;
• OpenAI Rewrites Contract, Anthropic Returns to Negotiate—The Chaos Continues;
• Data centers become military targets as Iran war rages on;
• Hacked traffic cameras and US intelligence: How a plot to kill Iran’s supreme leader came together.

The public domain music we used (all from the Internet Archive):

• Stokowski Acoustics 1917-1925 – Red Label Victors.

Image Credit: Shop Catalog, Source, CC by 2.0