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“Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit

Major record labels are suing Anthropic for allegedly using torrented music and songs to train Claude, arguing the $1.5 billion settlement with authors doesn't adequately punish the company. They claim Anthropic founders personally downloaded millions of copyrighted works and plan to keep using them indefinitely.

Sony, EMI, and Warner Chappell allege Anthropic illegally downloaded "thousands upon thousands" of copyrighted songs via BitTorrent starting in July 2021, including works by Taylor Swift, Eminem, and the Beatles.
Anthropic co-founder Benjamin Mann personally conducted the torrenting, with CEO Dario Amodei's approval; both are named as individual defendants.
Publishers argue the $1.5 billion book settlement is insufficient deterrent given Anthropic's $2 trillion valuation, and that Claude can now generate songs mimicking artists' styles and reproduce lyrics verbatim, directly harming songwriters competing against AI-generated music.

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