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

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989 points acomjean | 1 comments | 05 Sep 25 19:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.326s | source
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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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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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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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1. emtel ◴[06 Sep 25 01:27 UTC] No.45145722[source]▶
Stealing physical goods is not the same as downloading copyrighted material.