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Re:Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright in... by brightlancer on Sunday July 09, 2023 @08:13PM (#36660464)
> Fact is, from the POV of the legal system, "using a guest account that had legal access to" a system, but to which (the account) you didn't have legal access

I don't think that is accurate.

He had legal access to the account. The account had legal access to the service.

The argument was that downloading articles en masse was an _abuse_ of the service, which was a violation of the Terms of Service and therefore a CRIMINAL ACT.

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