See kids? Its okay to steal if you steal more money than the fine costs.

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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hananova 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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bn-l 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That’s not enough punitive damages for the crime (which is egregious and absolutely deplorable).

	▲	ascorbic 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		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.

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ajross 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That metaphor doesn't really work. It's a settlement, not a punishment, and this is payment, not a fine. Legally it's more like "The store wasn't open, so I took the items from the lot and paid them later".

It's not the way we expect people to do business under normal circumstances, but in new markets with new products? I guess I don't see much actually wrong with this. Authors still get paid a price they were willing to accept, and Anthropic didn't need to wait years to come to an agreement (again, publishers weren't actually selling what AI companies needed to buy!) before training their LLMs.

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hedayet 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The Silicon Valley dream: If you’re not getting sued left and right by people with every right to, you didn’t disrupt hard enough.

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