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Comment by gaiagraphia | Hacker News Reader

It's quite curious how multi billion dollar enterprises can't compete with a Chinese bootlegger with a big jacket, tbh.

Imagine having such a warchest and being so bad at business, lol.

My biggest concern with pirating has always been malicious programs. But companies still need to show value in their products or people will pirate.

What added value can Anthropic give users not available to pirating users? That is what they should ask themselves.

ZDR but that is meaningless if the person wants to do nothing more than cheat on homework (or has enough hardware to run a local model)

any third party provider can offer zdr. if its a reputable company in a place like switzerland or germany i would trust them more than anthropic to hold up that promise.

Bad at business? One of them has to make the thing.

Maybe the making of the thing should be paid for before it's made, rather than hoping that selling copies will recoup the investment. I.e., go back to patronage while abolishing copyright.

This doesn’t support your previous theory.

This type of "resource curse" paints a perfect picture of why US based frontier providers are set up to fail. They want, and have, few restrictions and along with that unlimited warchest. The Chinese on the other hand aren't burning billions like millions. Anthropic, OAI, Google, Meta... They're all phenomenal examples of waste, corporate greed, inefficiency and are the reasons people hate tech bros at this point. Whining and crying from their super yacht, Parkinson's law is alive and well!

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