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989 points acomjean | 5 comments | 05 Sep 25 19:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.779s | source

1. nottorp ◴[05 Sep 25 21:15 UTC] No.45143708[source]▶

I thought 1.5 B is the penalty for one torrent, not for a couple million torrents.

At least if you're a regular citizen.

2. taftster ◴[05 Sep 25 21:28 UTC] No.45143834[source]▶

Make sure to grab the mother-of-all-torrents I guess if you're going to go that path. That way you get more bang for your 1.5B penalty.

3. ipaddr ◴[05 Sep 25 21:46 UTC] No.45144020[source]▶

A million torrents would cost 1,500 each.

4. pavon ◴[06 Sep 25 05:33 UTC] No.45146881[source]▶

$150,000 statutory damages for willful infringement.

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5. nottorp ◴[06 Sep 25 08:22 UTC] No.45147559[source]▶

So they only paid for 10k books?

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