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pier25 3 days ago

It's an indisputable fact they downloaded like 7M books illegally.

bhelkey 3 days ago | parent [-]

From the article:

> Alsup gave the parties a Sept. 15 deadline to submit a final list of works, which currently stands around 465,000.

pier25 3 days ago | parent [-]

They did download 7M books.

> That's a far cry from the 7 million works that he initially certified as covered in the class. A breakdown from the Authors Guild—which consulted on the case and is part of a Working Group helping to allocate claims of $3,000 per work to authors and publishers—explained that "after accounting for the many duplicates," foreign editions, unregistered works, and books missing class criteria, "only approximately 500,000 titles meet the definition required to be part of the class."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/judge-anthropics...