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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: 0.38s | 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. ddingus ◴[07 Jul 25 17:25 UTC] No.44492603[source]▶
Yes, and the struggle with this back in the day was the *IAA and related organizations wanted to equate infringement with theft.

And to be clear, we javelin the word infringement precisely because it is not theft.

In addition to the deprived revenue, piracy also improves on the general relevance the author has or may have in the public sphere. Essentially, one of the side effects of piracy is basically advertising.

Doctorow was one of the early ones to bring this aspect of it up.