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Re:Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated boo... by croes on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @12:32AM (#49001925)
Usually a thief isn‘t allowed to keep what he has stolen
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Re:Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated boo... by bandrami on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @02:40AM (#49002670)
That's why copyright infringement is legally different from theft
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Re:Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated boo... by croes on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @07:20AM (#49004963)
They call it piracy, not me
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Re:Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated boo... by bandrami on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @09:04AM (#49006150)
It's even less like attacking merchant vessels without a letter of marque than it is like theft, though
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Re:Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated boo... by t0mpr1c3 on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @01:16AM (#49002157)
Perhaps your analogy is wrong.
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Re:Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated boo... by croes on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @07:20AM (#49004968)
Maybe they shouldn’t call it piracy then
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