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

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397 points pyman | 1 comments | 07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | 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.

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x3n0ph3n3 ◴[07 Jul 25 10:45 UTC] No.44488816[source]▶
Copyright infringement is not stealing.
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pyman ◴[07 Jul 25 11:10 UTC] No.44488987[source]▶
Pirating a book and selling it on claude.ai is stealing, both legally and morally.
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1. BlackFly ◴[07 Jul 25 11:51 UTC] No.44489353[source]▶
Making a copy differs from taking an existing object in all aspects: literally, technically, legally and ethically. Piracy is making a copy you have no legal right to. Stealing is taking a physical object that you have no legal right to. While the "no legal right to" seems the same superficially, in practice the laws differ quite a bit because the literal, technical and ethical aspects differ.