A 1,640-Point HN Thread Contrasts Aaron Swartz's 70GB JSTOR Prosecution With Meta's 81.7TB of Torrented Books
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A August 19 post became the top HN story of the period with 1,640 points and 385 comments, setting Swartz's 35-year exposure and $1M fine over roughly 70 gigabytes from JSTOR against Meta torrenting over 81.7TB of pirated books for AI training, with the case still working through court. The community reaction, not the post's facts, is the signal here: this is the same week Anna's Archive's book-destruction piece pulled 572 points and 855 comments, so training-data provenance is currently the highest-engagement AI topic on the site by a wide margin.