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Comment by conception

19 hours ago

They already did and paid 1.5B https://authorsguild.org/advocacy/artificial-intelligence/wh...

Quite amusing that the library of libgen is worth 1.5bil for unlimited access.

It's about the same valuation as bun, lol.

  • $3,000 per title.

    • Do you think many authors would give you rights to create derivative works en masse for that money?

    • For endlessly reselling the whole work verbatim? Well, where can I buy such a license in the real world, because then I would like to buy a couple of those!

That's a great cost-benefit ratio. Can you and I steal and do illegal things and pay the same cost?

  • Sure, but only if you get the same benefits

    • looks like we can't today. Man it would be great to figure out how to be above the law just like how these other rich people in different social classes are.