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

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393 points pyman | 2 comments | 07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.457s | 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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1. Der_Einzige ◴[07 Jul 25 14:26 UTC] No.44490720[source]▶
Information wants to be free.
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2. troyvit ◴[07 Jul 25 16:12 UTC] No.44491829[source]▶
Then why does Claude cost money?