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1. pyman+1[view] [source] 2025-07-07 09:20:38
>>pyman+(OP)
Anthropic's cofounder, Ben Mann, downloaded million copies of books from Library Genesis in 2021, fully aware that the material was pirated.

Stealing is stealing. Let's stop with the double standards.

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2. dathin+zH[view] [source] 2025-07-07 14:55:12
>>pyman+1
stealing with the intent to gain a unfair marked advantage so that you can effectively kill any ethically legally correctly acting company in a way which is very likely going to hurt many authors through the products you create is far worse then just stealing for personal use

that isn't "just" stealing, it's organized crime

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