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It was not okay for them, they had to pay one billion dollars.
by cubefox 4mo ago
It was not okay for them, they had to pay one billion dollars.
- p_j_w 4mo agoThat’s a pittance compared to their revenue.
- callmeal 4mo ago>It was not okay for them, they had to pay one billion dollars. Essentially peanuts compared to what they would have to pay to obtain the rights of everything they pirated.
- cubefox 4mo agoNo. It's actually way more than what they would have paid if they legally obtained those books. The 1.5 billion dollars amount to $3000 per book.
- slopinthebag 4mo ago> obtain the rights of everything they pirated They didn't just pirate those books...
- cubefox 4mo agoIf we assume on average $20 per legally obtained book, 1.5 billion dollars are enough for 75 million books. That's approximately every non-fiction book in existence.
- slopinthebag 4mo agoWhy would we assume $20 a book? Many books retail for more, and a licence to use the book for commercial purposes is more than retail.
- internet_points 4mo agoLegally obtaining a book for reading it yourself is different from legally obtaining a book for copying and republishing/reselling. If I buy a book for $5 at a sale I can read it myself or even sell it for $10 on craigslist, but I can't scan it and make a million copies and sell each of those.
- cubefox 4mo agoThey aren't republishing or reselling. In fact, they buy huge amounts of books and then destroy them, which is better for the rights holders than to resell them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthropic-ai-scan-destroy-books/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthrop...
- scotty79 4mo agoThat's terrifying waste of real world resouces for no other purpose than satisfying the letter i of the absurd rent-seeking-enabling laws.
- m4rtink 4mo agoAnyone who destroys a book on purpose is a criminal.
- DonsDiscountGas 4mo agoPeople are allowed to destroy their own property. And anyway if you don't like this state of affairs blame the copyright holders and copyright law
- pixel_popping 4mo agoMy 2-year old daughter should go to jail.
- gf000 4mo agoSince whole chunks of these books can be recited verbatim by these models, to which they sell access, they absolutely are republishing and reselling these books' content in a way. Like I remember a research paper that managed to recreate the whole of a Harry Potter book from a model?
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