GitHub and OpenAI fail to wriggle out of Copilot lawsuit • The Register

Lawsuits alleging GitHub Copilot breached licenses can move forward. Will be interesting to see how these cases are decided.

This is a fucked up detail:

The judge meanwhile rejected the defense argument that the plaintiffs should not be allowed to continue their claim pseudonymously based on death threats sent to the plaintiffs’ counsel.

Who is sending death threats to the lawyers of people trying to sue GitHub/Microsoft/OpenAI, and why? Something’s fishy there.

I hope the plaintiffs win and sue GitHub and Microsoft to kingdom come! 😆

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci And yeah re the death threats, that’s really fucked up 😳😱

@prologic@twtxt.net I mean, I get that there are differences of opinion. But death threats? Who the hell is doing that?

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci if the death threats are coming from Microsoft themselves that’s a whole other can of worms, and I really hope it’s not them. and if they aren’t then who are these people who care so much about copilot they’re willing to resort to others’ deaths to keep it? the whole thing is very strange and horrifying.