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393 points pyman | 1 comments | 07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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pyman ◴[07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC] No.44488332[source]▶

Anthropic's cofounder, Ben Mann, downloaded million copies of books from Library Genesis in 2021, fully aware that the material was pirated.

Stealing is stealing. Let's stop with the double standards.

At least most pirates just consume for personal use. Profiting from piracy is a whole other level beyond just pirating a book.

1. mnky9800n ◴[07 Jul 25 10:50 UTC] No.44488853[source]▶

I feel like profit was always a central motive of pirates. At least from the historical documents known as, "The Pirates of the Caribbean".

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