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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: 0.241s | source
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ramon156 ◴[07 Jul 25 10:42 UTC] No.44488798[source]▶
Pirate and pay the fine is probably hell of a lot cheaper than individually buying all these books. I'm not saying this is justified, but what would you have done in their situation?

Sayi "they have the money" is not an argument. It's about the amount of effort that is needed to individually buy, scan, process millions of pages. If that's done for you, why re-do it all?

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tmaly ◴[07 Jul 25 13:57 UTC] No.44490433[source]▶
At minimum they should have to buy the book they are deriving weights from.
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1. SirMaster ◴[07 Jul 25 16:28 UTC] No.44491990[source]▶
But should the purchase be like a personal license? Or like a commercia license that costs way more?

Because for example if you buy a movie on disc, that's a personal license and you can watch it yourself at home. But you can't like play it at a large public venue that sell tickets to watch it. You need a different and more expensive license to make money off the usage of the content in a larger capacity like that.