Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge

Someone on Twitter said: "Oh well, P2P mp3 downloads, although illegal, made contributions to the music industry"

That's not what's happening here. People weren't downloading music illegally and reselling it on Claude.ai. And while P2P networks led to some great tech, there's no solid proof they actually improved the music industry.

Let's not forget Spotify ;)

https://gizmodo.com/early-spotify-was-built-on-pirated-mp3-f...

I really feel as if Youtube is the best sort of convenience for music videos where most people watch ads whereas some people can use an ad blocker.

I use an adblocker and tbh I think so many people on HN are okay with ad blocking and not piracy when basically both just block the end user from earning money.

I kind of believe that if you really like a software, you really like something. Just ask them what their favourite charity is and donate their or join their patreon/a direct way to support them.

Those claims were never proved.

If you are someone who can think clearly, it's extremely obvious that the conversation around copyright, LLMs, piracy, and ad-blocking is

"What serves me personally the best for any given situation" for 95% of people.

I think that critique of this case is not about piracy in itself but how these companies are treated by courts vs. how individuals are treated.