>If a grandma or teen can get saddled with life ruining punitive damages for something as innocent as filesharing That's the same thing these corporations were

>If a grandma or teen can get saddled with life ruining punitive damages for something as innocent as filesharing That's the same thing these corporations were found guilty of though. Or well, maybe not even that, since it was about downloading copyrighted material, not necessarily sharing: https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/g-s1-87367/anthropic-authors-settlement-pirated-chatbot-training-material https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/g-s1-87367/anthropic-authors-... >The company has agreed to pay authors about $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 books covered by the settlement.