1. company raises $1mm in funding
2. coincidentally, other company raises $1mm in funding
3. they each sign $1mm contracts with each other
4. both are now at $1mm arr
5. both raise $10mm at $100mm
6. repeat the process from step 3 until your revenue is $10 trillion
7. acquire microsoft and now you have a $3 trillion revenue-generating business
why is no one doing this?
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded 70GBs of articles from JSTOR. He faced $1 million fine and 35 years in jail. He took his life in 2013.
Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models without any punishment.