Are all the journalist layoffs a fever dream?
This is one of the more profitable ones, and only because they employ unscrupulous tactics:
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NWS/news/profit-ma...
This is NYT, the most successful news business:
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NYT/new-york-times...
As for movies/tv show/music makers, let’s just say most people in the software engineering business would look at their numbers and count their lucky stars that they are not in the movie/tv show/music business.
(It is also true that excessive copyright lengths have removed access to content that the public should have a right to).
You got my point backwards: AI companies will make it from the pirated content, that individual users don't make.
If only piracy would actually harm these businesses but alas as often demonstrated it has zero effect on their bottom line, if anything it increases their profits.
If you are advocating for a free for all libertarian dystopia, well, I have some bad news for you - they never work.
Not being able to un-see a movie and get your time and money back is one side of the coin. The other side is that information can be copied.
Both sides suck for one of the parties. There's no reason why one of them gets it their way, especially if it requires a contrived legal framework while the other way would require nothing at all.
