I mean, 4x the market cap of Meta, 80x, it makes little difference. The key is the book publishers should end up owning Meta. Again, I wouldn’t expect them to necessarily turn Facebook into some revitalized utopia. But I think at least a bunch of stodgy old book publishers wouldn’t be so overtly cartoonishly fascist at the very least.

Exactly. Of course, I need to make sure the files are appropriate for AI training, so it’s imperative that I review the media in its entirety first.

That’s one of those things that fridge logic really hits hard. Because there are no fixed prices under Earth’s laws. So in exchange for quintillions of dollars of Earth’s music, the aliens could just sell us technology at the same or similar price.

Let’s do some math. Some searching suggests the average size of an e-book is about 3 MB. 82 TB means they pirated about 27 million e-books. At the rate of Russet’s fine, that would come to damages of $2.2 trillion. So not more money than has ever is about 4x Meta’s entire market cap.

I hope the book publishers sue Meta and end up owning Facebook and Instagram. Not that I expect one evil megacorp to inevitably fix all the ills of another. But it would be hard to make Facebook any worse than it currently is.

I have no idea what you’re talking about. I don’t pirate media. I’m just slowly gathering a collection of AI training data.