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What do you mean by 'it is legal'?

Do you mean:

A) It's not a criminal offence?

B) The copyright owner cannot file a civil suit for damages?

C) Something else?

>>rahimn+(OP)
> Only distribution is a crime

>>irthom+M4
Only distribution with the intent to make money is a crime. If you are doing it for free you are not criminally liable. Unless I am missing something.

>>irthom+M4
What relevance does that have to the present case? The judge, in this civil matter, said there would be a trial. He didn't say anything about it being a criminal trial. The strings 'crim' and 'felon' do not appear in the ruling.

  We will have a trial on the pirated copies used to create Anthropic’s central library and the resulting damages, actual or statutory (including for willfulness).

>>rahimn+96
There can always be a trial, even if nothing was done to warrant it.

I think the distinction between civil and criminal trials is smaller in my home country. The fact that there is a trial at all implies that someone commited a ‘crime’.

>>throwa+Q5
Any distribution of copyrighted material can cause you a big trouble.