Re:Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?
by spwa4 on Monday October 12, 2026 @04:49PM
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Why aren't they being charged for mass-copying copyrighted works? In the napster lawsuits it was made clear: $150000 per violation PLUS 2 months prison.
Yet somehow neither Sam Altman nor Dario Amodei nor Mark Zuckerberg nor Larry Page are in jail for 100000 years, plus on the hook for 95 billion dollars. Oh and they did this before either congress or government changed anything about copyright and the one thing neither government nor congress nor judges can do is retroactively change the law.
Reality is simple: the law applies against 9 year olds downloading a disney movie, but does not apply against billionaires downloading your work, and doing it to hundreds of millions of people. That's just fine.
Yet somehow neither Sam Altman nor Dario Amodei nor Mark Zuckerberg nor Larry Page are in jail for 100000 years, plus on the hook for 95 billion dollars. Oh and they did this before either congress or government changed anything about copyright and the one thing neither government nor congress nor judges can do is retroactively change the law.
Reality is simple: the law applies against 9 year olds downloading a disney movie, but does not apply against billionaires downloading your work, and doing it to hundreds of millions of people. That's just fine.