> It was broken by a company of people who were not very rich at all

I think the company's bank account would beg to differ on that.

> managed to produce billions in value (not dollars, value) by breaking said laws.

Ah, so breaking the law is ok if enough "value" is created? Whatever that means?

> They're not trafficking humans or doing predatory lending, they're building AI.

They're not trafficking humans or doing predatory lending, they're infringing on the copyright of book authors.

Not sure why you ended that sentence with "building AI", as that's not comparing apples to apples.

But sure, ok, so it's ok to break the law if you, random person on the internet, think their end goals are worthwhile? So the ends justify the means, huh?

> This is why our judicial system literally handles things on a case by case basis.

Yes, and Anthropic was afraid enough of an unfavorable verdict in this particular case that they paid a billion and a half to make it go away.