Class action against GitHub Copilot

Posted Nov 18, 2022 15:53 UTC (Fri) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
In reply to: Class action against GitHub Copilot by bfields
Parent article: Class action against GitHub Copilot

The point of class action is not to compensate victims but to incentivize private law firms into making sure the law is applied. Because it turns out states are very bad at prosecuting interests that make lavish campaign donations.

It would be more honest to scrap the compensation altogether but lawmakers are reluctant to admit they don’t trust themselves to prosecute big money fairly.