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Why don't they? You're saying that a piracy forum has no place for discussing anything that isn't promoting piracy. I'm telling you that it does, because the topic of piracy includes the topic of when one should or should not pirate.

I block ads using uBlock. Does that count?

Just like how a community centered around recreational drugs is going to recommend against taking drugs if it puts your life in danger, or a python community telling you to learn C if you want to do embedded programming, or a hammer community telling you to use a screwdriver on a screw.

Same with large academic datasets. You can't rely on most academics to maintain their work past publication, nor to have machines capable of serving that much data in one go.

I'm pretty sure "admits" implies an attempt to hide it. They've explicitly said in the model's initial publication that the training set includes Books3.

If connecting to a computer in Canada is sufficient excuse seize someone's computers, then banning VPNs won't make a difference. There's no way for them to know that it's a VPN. It'll just look like any other internet traffic.

Anyone smart enough to get around that would also be smart enough to get around whatever the government does to block it.

I just checked and they're all 7-8min long. The videos in that YouTube playlist are 2-4min long.

Ridiculously expensive housing without the salaries to match. But at least I don't have to worry about going broke if ever someone in the family gets sick I guess.