If your industry depends on theft to survive maybe your industry shouldn’t exist? Just a thought

OK, but are there any downsides? I see nothing wrong with that.

Oh no, we can’t make slop without stealing? The horror!

Aah, cut off the crap Clegg.

Under the current IP and copyright laws across the world, your argument has as much merit as “let robbers steal; asking others permission before snatching their stuff would ‘kill’ the black market”.

And, if the idiotic laws are to be revoked, they should be revoked for everyone. This would allow you to train your bloody models on those artists - but it would also allow everyone to grab things from your “industry” and you should not be able to do anything against them.

Pick a choice. One of those two. Enough of this bloody Bob Dylan defence* - either everyone is a thief, or everyone is a king; your industry is not such special snowflake, and you are not a higher caste above the rest of us dammit.

* Steal a little and they throw you in jail / Steal a lot and they make you king

If it dies, it dies.

It wouldn’t kill it. It would just force them to use public domain and CC content like the rest of us

Nick fucking Clegg, the man who singlehandedly killed the Lib Dems, handing Brexit, which his party was EXPLICITLY against to the Tories… I’d totally listen to this Midas but with shit opportunistic dumbass…

Yeah, I don’t give two shits about your stock prices, Clegg.

I can’t make my Mini-mouse with hunky Millhouse crossover sex art without a C&D and psychology recommendation, but sure, these rich assholes can steal the works of others. Somehow their business is more important than the rights of the people that they would definitely sue if you showed more than 3s of copyrighted work that they owned…

This sounds like a perfectly acceptable outcome.

They should get into torrents.

The alternative being, killing the art industry?

Then let it die.