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callmealyesterday at 5:55 AM1 replyview on HN

>It was not okay for them, they had to pay one billion dollars.

Essentially peanuts compared to what they would have to pay to obtain the rights of everything they pirated.


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cubefoxyesterday at 6:07 AM

No. It's actually way more than what they would have paid if they legally obtained those books. The 1.5 billion dollars amount to $3000 per book.

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