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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: 0s | 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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johnnyanmac ◴[05 Sep 25 23:17 UTC] No.45144857[source]▶
Tell that to Aaron schwartz
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1. emtel ◴[06 Sep 25 01:35 UTC] No.45145774[source]▶
Swartz wasn’t charged only for downloading copyrighted material, he was also charged with wire fraud and breaking and entering.