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Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors

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989 points acomjean | 9 comments | 05 Sep 25 19:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.974s | source | bottom
1. thinkingtoilet ◴[05 Sep 25 21:03 UTC] No.45143584[source]▶
Great. Which rich person is going to jail for breaking the law?
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2. missedthecue ◴[05 Sep 25 21:43 UTC] No.45143987[source]▶
This isn't a criminal case so zero people of any financial position would end up in prison.
3. emtel ◴[05 Sep 25 21:45 UTC] No.45144007[source]▶
No one, rich or poor, goes to jail for downloading books.
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4. mdp2021 ◴[05 Sep 25 22:18 UTC] No.45144309[source]▶
Are you sure? I think in some jurisdictions they would, according to the law.
5. johnnyanmac ◴[05 Sep 25 23:17 UTC] No.45144857[source]▶
Tell that to Aaron schwartz
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6. thinkingtoilet ◴[06 Sep 25 00:37 UTC] No.45145406[source]▶
If I walked into a store and stole $1000 of books I would go to jail. If a tech company steals countless thousands of dollars worth of books, someone should go to jail.
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7. emtel ◴[06 Sep 25 01:27 UTC] No.45145722{3}[source]▶
Stealing physical goods is not the same as downloading copyrighted material.
8. emtel ◴[06 Sep 25 01:35 UTC] No.45145774{3}[source]▶
Swartz wasn’t charged only for downloading copyrighted material, he was also charged with wire fraud and breaking and entering.
9. arduanika ◴[06 Sep 25 13:38 UTC] No.45149162[source]▶
Well their seed funder SBF went to jail, but not for bankrolling this particular theft. He did a theft of his own. Still, SBF and the Anthropic guys got their "ethics" from the same shitty blogs, and it shows.