This argument doesn't make any sense. All manner of AI companies just ingest whatever random text they can find on the internet to train their data, including copyrighted publications. Why would DRM on a digital copy of a book matter?

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eru 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There might be special rules around DRM that go beyond normal copyright?

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jdub 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Ladies and gentlemen, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

(which is terrible, but I would be delighted if they breached it and got thoroughly spanked)

	▲	sidewndr46 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		so if I base64 encode my blog, have some Javascript that 'validates' an authorized viewer and then decodes the base64 into HTML which is added to the DOM does that constitute DRM ?

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streetfighter64 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> Why would DRM on a digital copy of a book matter?

Because DRM is just a way to make "breaking copyright" more practically cumbersome. What's easier, breaking digital DRM for each and every E-book you find, or just establishing a single pipeline for scanning physical books?

	▲	sidewndr46 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		breaking DRM is so easy my generation was doing it as kids, there is no technical obstacle there.