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

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989 points acomjean | 4 comments | 05 Sep 25 19:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.767s | source
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MaxikCZ ◴[05 Sep 25 20:51 UTC] No.45143446[source]▶
See kids? Its okay to steal if you steal more money than the fine costs.
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1. ascorbic ◴[05 Sep 25 21:33 UTC] No.45143878[source]▶
They're paying $3000 per book. It would've been a lot cheaper to buy the books (which is what they actually did end up doing too).
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2. bn-l ◴[06 Sep 25 08:43 UTC] No.45147647[source]▶
That’s not enough punitive damages for the crime (which is egregious and absolutely deplorable).
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3. ascorbic ◴[06 Sep 25 09:59 UTC] No.45147983[source]▶
I wonder how many of the people saying this about copyright infringement today were complaining about the ridiculously harsh enforcement of it 10-15 years ago. They've just paid $1.5B for torrenting.
4. hananova ◴[06 Sep 25 15:35 UTC] No.45150212[source]▶
I'm sure the lesson they learned isn't to pay for the books in the future, but to not get caught in the future.

In the business where all the value is in data, all they lost is a bit of money.