points by malfist 2 days ago | 0 comments
Why isn't the comparison meaningful? Aaron broke the law and circumvented protections, Anthropic broke the law and circumvented protections. Regardless of if Aaron broke into a network closet or anthropic broke DRM, anthropic took explicit action to receive knowingly stolen goods.
[–] sillysaurusx 2 days ago
[–] mountainb 2 days ago
This is correct. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030
[–] Moomoomoo309 2 days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50263074
This comment explains how they did break the CFAA multiple times, got caught red-handed, and got a slap on the wrist.
Say you have a network. You want to keep someone out of it. The tool for that is the CFAA.
If you have a book, and you want to stop someone from reproducing it, the tool for that is copyright.
They cover different domains. If you're not breaking into a network, you're unlikely to be charged under the CFAA.