alt Hacker NewsThat implies US jurisdiction plus that was made at the time where "hey, let's actually reverse-engineer and copy our competitor" was very expensive and time-consuming, so slapping one company would discourage everyone else to sink money in it. Currently it seems the latter is becoming either automatic (still somewhat expensive) or even free.
Committing copyright infringement against software vendors was automatic and free before, when it involved merely copying files, maybe after cracking the copy protect. It was still illegal. What makes you think this time would be any different? The fact that an LLM did it? Whatever an LLM produces humans assume responsibility for.