Yeah, I don’t really care what they harvest either. I suppose if conversations showed up in chat that would be an issue, but the internet is a public forum anyway and there’s no expectation of privacy here.
If copyright law can work against the individual, it should work against the corporation as well. We can’t only enforce it against the little people. Enforce it for all or for none.
In this instance they’re not even taking copyrighted content. I don’t think random forum posts are copyrightable since they’re not even being reproduced, it’s just being read to create a derivative work.
The expectation that things are not private is totally different from the expectation that things are not being harvested for profit, though. Harvesting things for profit is transforming the public into the private.
Yeah, I don’t really care what they harvest either. I suppose if conversations showed up in chat that would be an issue, but the internet is a public forum anyway and there’s no expectation of privacy here.
If copyright law can work against the individual, it should work against the corporation as well. We can’t only enforce it against the little people. Enforce it for all or for none.
In this instance they’re not even taking copyrighted content. I don’t think random forum posts are copyrightable since they’re not even being reproduced, it’s just being read to create a derivative work.
The expectation that things are not private is totally different from the expectation that things are not being harvested for profit, though. Harvesting things for profit is transforming the public into the private.