I am from EU and we have been getting a lot of things much later and having to use VPNs to get past this. Sometimes even a VPN is not enough since we need US phone number etc. Couldn't get access to Claude and OpenAI advanced voice mode for a long time. It feels very frustrating since others can already start building with cutting edge things, giving them a huge advantage.
Have yet to see a case where they didn’t also include the UK and other decidedly none EU states, which makes me think this has little to do with regulation and more trying to manage load during the initial release. Regulation is of course an amazing scape goat, especially if one intended to convince people against any legislation not written by and for the current front runners of the industry.
Yes, unfortunately in this world not being "ethically constrained" can give you a big advantage. Still doesn't mean one should not strive to do the right thing.
If your ethics is innately tied to the nuance of fringe intellectual property law in a brand new domain, it may be time to relax some things
That is to say, a lax perspective of intellectual property law can be less or more ethical than one which supports the undeterred corporate collation of powers behind those laws.
Those in control do not have a monopoly on ethical goodness.
In this case the potentially infringed parties would be YouTube creators, who in most cases are not corporations or backed by them.
(I myself personally happen to think it's fine to train a commercial AI on content from the internet like this, but the framing of your argument just feels misleading or even manipulative. "Copyright" -> "IP law" -> "big business" -> "bad vibes", when for cases like this the affected people are almost all small individuals and the responsible entities are almost all big corporations.)
