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

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393 points pyman | 1 comments | 07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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1oooqooq ◴[07 Jul 25 11:01 UTC] No.44488916[source]▶
Aaron Swartz rolling
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pyman ◴[07 Jul 25 11:08 UTC] No.44488969[source]▶
He downloaded millions of academic articles and the government charged him with multiple felonies.

The difference is, Aaron Swartz wasn't planning to build massive datacenters with expensive Nvidia servers all over the world.

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1. omnimus ◴[07 Jul 25 11:23 UTC] No.44489095[source]▶
It's even worse considering all he downloaded was in public domain so it was much less problematic considering copyright.

Lesson is simple. If you want to break a law make sure it is very profitable because then you can find investors and get away with it. If you play robin hood you will be met with a hammer.