There also may be an element of trying legally offload responsibility. If you’re paying someone else for access, you have the insurance to say you didn’t know you were getting pirated material, you paid for it and assumed that was then licensed!
According to the complaint, Anna’s Archive then warned Nvidia that its library was illegally acquired and maintained. Because the site previously wasted time on other AI companies, the pirate library asked NVIDIA executives if they had internal permission to move forward.
There also may be an element of trying legally offload responsibility. If you’re paying someone else for access, you have the insurance to say you didn’t know you were getting pirated material, you paid for it and assumed that was then licensed!
I’m definitely not arguing NVIDIA didn’t know what they were doing. They probably didn’t think their internal emails would get leaked.
Very funny