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

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393 points pyman | 4 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.

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originalvichy ◴[07 Jul 25 09:55 UTC] No.44488540[source]▶
At least most pirates just consume for personal use. Profiting from piracy is a whole other level beyond just pirating a book.
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1. mrcwinn ◴[07 Jul 25 14:26 UTC] No.44490718[source]▶
> At least most pirates just consume for personal use.

Easy for the pirate to say. Artists might argue their intent was to trade compensation for one's personal enjoyment of the work.

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2. Workaccount2 ◴[07 Jul 25 15:01 UTC] No.44491100[source]▶
The gut punch of being a photographer selling your work on display, someone walks by and lines up their phone to take a perfect picture of your photograph, and then exclaims to you "Your work is beautiful! I can't wait to print this out and put it on my wall!"
3. jobs_throwaway ◴[07 Jul 25 15:04 UTC] No.44491137[source]▶
All the evidence shows that piracy is good for artists' business. You make a good work, people are exposed to it through piracy, and they end up buying more of your stuff than they would otherwise. But keep crying about the artist's plight
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4. SketchySeaBeast ◴[07 Jul 25 15:44 UTC] No.44491539[source]▶
The way you've presented this, the evidence is just "common sense", which isn't much evidence at all.