@petersuber I'm not sure I understand how it can be both fair use and pirated material at the same time. If you acquire the material and only use it in a means covered by fair use, how is that a violation of the copyright to acquire it?

@petersuber @kamellatate No it didn’t. It made that ruling a year ago. This settlement was about obtaining the books illegally not, technical, the fair use question.

@petersuber Pretty insane that a company with that much capital just decided that they'd pirate books instead of buying them.

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Compare the $3k per title with penalties of file sharers corrected for inflation.

Or an individual stealing cable/satellite service (can be €100,000, seizure of all electronic equipment and closure of buiness).

Anything less that shutting them down, seizing data centres and ruling all titles & sites used was illegal is endorsing it.

Web sites & books are content for humans to read.

@petersuber sorry just training my intelligence in copyrighted material I pirated...