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

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390 points pyman | 1 comments | 07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.453s | source
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bgwalter ◴[07 Jul 25 14:38 UTC] No.44490836[source]▶
Here is how individuals are treated for massive copyright infringement:

https://investors.autodesk.com/news-releases/news-release-de...

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chourobin ◴[07 Jul 25 15:15 UTC] No.44491257[source]▶
copyright is not the same as piracy
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achierius ◴[07 Jul 25 15:29 UTC] No.44491384[source]▶
Can you explain why? What makes them categorically different or at the very least why is "piracy" quantitatively worse than 'just' copyright violation?
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arrosenberg ◴[07 Jul 25 15:40 UTC] No.44491491[source]▶
Piracy is theft - you have taken something and deprived the original owner of it.

Copyright infringement is unauthorized reproduction - you have made a copy of something, but you have not deprived the original owner of it. At most, you denied them revenue although generally less than the offended party claims, since not all instances of copying would have otherwise resulted in a sale.

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1. fuzzfactor ◴[07 Jul 25 16:29 UTC] No.44492000[source]▶
I have about the same concept of piracy these days.

Real piracy always involves booty.

Naturally booty is wealth that has been hoarded.

Has nothing to do with wealth that may or may not come in the future, regardless of whether any losses due to piracy have taken place already or not.