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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.

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

$150,000 statutory damages for willful infringement.

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2. 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