It's both. The court has ruled that they can't make a copy of the book, but if they scan and destroy the original then it's fine because it's not creating additional copies.

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tekchip 2 hours ago | parent [-]

By that insane logic a digital copy isnt a copy. So a digital copy of a bluray isnt a copy either. I guess piracy isnt piracy as long as i destroy the original. Sweet! Are we finally seeing the "lets treat digital as if corporial" concept crumbling?

	▲	knollimar 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah wtf putting something in ram for temporary use is a copy but this isn't?????
	▲	Karliss an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Even if you ignore the nonavoidable copies which happen during normal usage of digital files there is no way they don't dozens of different real copies of their training dataset across many different servers accessible by many people.