[hmry]

Different situations call for different responses.

When someone steals a watch, we force them to give it back. Yet when someone steals a cake and eats it, we don't force them to puke it back up.

If you pirate a movie, the court might very well force you to delete all the copies you made of the movie you downloaded, destroy DVDs you burned, etc.

[raverbashing]

Thanks for proving current copyright law makes no sense

Here's a better idea, a fixed fee for any work. You can buy the license to read a book for $X (for whatever purpose) in RAND terms - of course publisher/material costs go on top, so if you're buying an actual book you're getting the material costs as well - or streaming fees or whatever

[shakna]

You can already buy books today. Doing so for training is currently considered fair use.

Anthropic simply considered that cost prohibitive and chose piracy instead.