Sad day when the hacker forum starts lamenting the poor copyright holders.

Hacker news is about hackers in the same way that the peoples democratic republic of Korea is about democracy.

I feel HN did have a more information-wants-to-be-free-ey, disrupt-the-incumbents-ey era, though. Or was it all a dream?

On what basis are you assuming that Anthropic committed greater copyright theft than Meta, OpenAI, and Google (not to mention many lesser-known options)?

Legally speaking they were found to have by a court and the others weren’t

When did that happen? Did they admit guilt in the big settlement, or was there a different case?