> From the start, Anthropic “ha[d] many places from which” it could have purchased books, but it preferred to steal them to avoid “legal/practice/business slog,

> From the start, Anthropic “ha[d] many places from which” it could have purchased books, but it preferred to steal them to avoid “legal/practice/business slog,” as cofounder and chief executive officer Dario Amodei put it (see Opp. Exh. 27). https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Bartz-v-Anthropic-Order-on-Fair-Use-6-23-25.pdf https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Bartz... Sounds pretty pro piracy to me.