> 1.5 billion dollars are not a "slap on the wrist". It is when the wrist being slapped raised $30 billion and had a valuation $380 billion[0] in the month of

> 1.5 billion dollars are not a "slap on the wrist". It is when the wrist being slapped raised $30 billion and had a valuation $380 billion[0] in the month of February 2026. Some would call the $1.5 billion piracy settlement "cost of doing business." And they would be right in this case. > It exceeded the amount they would have legally paid for those books by orders of magnitude. Making the argument that a piracy settlement exceeds what a corporation would have paid for each individual book pirated, when said distribution exceeds individual copies of each book "by orders of magnitude" (your words, not mine) is disingenuous at best. 0 - https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/02/13/anthropic-the-380-billion-powerhouse-hiding-in-plain-sight/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/02/13/anthropic...