Comment by xdennis

> Yeah, like all those Chinese bootleggers selling DVDs for a few dollars rather than $20. Free market!

It's supremely ironic analogize distillation to copyright infringement when it's literally what Anthropic was found guilty of. It's not illegal to distill. It is illegal to pirate. And it's what Anthropic was found guilty of, not Alibaba.

https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-authors-copyright-judge...