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legitster • yesterday at 7:09 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

The distinction (besides Anthropic being too big to be thrown in jail) is that Aaron Schwartz was intentionally pirating research papers with intent to redistribute, and was publicly attacking copyright laws.

Anthropic training their model outside of public sight without intent to redistribute, and had a large paper trail that expressed they believed they were acting within fair use.


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__bjoernd • yesterday at 10:22 PM

Are you saying Aaron Swartz should have just left a similar paper trail documenting that he believed to do the right thing in the interest of society? I don't believe this would have saved him from the wrath of the copyright industry.

15155 • yesterday at 10:09 PM

> The distinction is that Aaron Schwartz was intentionally pirating research papers

And, you know, all of the intentional, physical, artfully-planned means by which he did so.