Absolutely fucking not...
Intellectual property is government-sanctioned monopolies. Artificial scarcity to goods that aren't scarce. Music has no economic value, etc etc (#796401).
Also, dude should get on Nostr/SN and start zapping high-quality material, eh!
On the other hand! If I buy a book, and read it, and it influences my view of the world, that seems like the normal way that knowledge advances. But if I steal a book, read it, and it influences my writing, that seems more annoying for the writer. I do not have to pay royalties to the writer of every book that I read, but I really should pay for a copy of the book. This is not legal advice or an analysis of intellectual property law or anything like that; this is just, come on, man. Pay for the book!
Yes, a physical book is scarce and rivalrous: only one person at a time can read that book. But the content of the book, the ideas, are nonrivalrous -- all of us can enjoy them, think about them, and benefit from them at the same time. Information wants to be free, etc etc.
...the first big legal tests of whether tech companies can use copyrighted material to train their powerful artificial intelligence models.
Easy fix: copyright is bullshit, throw that out and this legal battle goes away.
non-paywalled here: https://newsletterhunt.com/emails/186792
(see what I did here? share valuable info and access without paying for it? IP is a scam.)