piracy

ACE chairman Charles Rivkin said it was a "resounding victory in its fight to detect, deter, and dismantle criminal perpetrators of digital piracy".

Alsup originally ordered the matter to go to trial in December to decide how much they would pay in piracy damages.

“That’s not who I think I pirates are. We were very intentional ... in creating a cast that we felt represented what piracy should be.”

But he also found that Anthropic’s downloading of copies of 7 million books from online “shadow libraries,” which included countless copyrighted works, without permission, smelled like piracy.

This month, Disney and Universal filed a lawsuit against AI image generator Midjourney, accusing it of piracy.