| ▲ | parineum 20 hours ago |
| They are "forced" to do this because that's what they have to do to abide by copyright law. They can't create a digital duplicate without destroying the original. |
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| ▲ | freejazz 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| If that's true, then why did they pirate so many books? |
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| ▲ | scarmig 18 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Is your complaint that they follow copyright law, or that they don't follow copyright law? | | |
| ▲ | freejazz 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm not complaining | |
| ▲ | Planktonne 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | A company with no respect for copyright law can't pretend they respect it when it is convenient for them; it's disingenuous, and shows that there is clearly another explanation. |
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| ▲ | parineum 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Because they hadn't been sued for pirating so many books yet. | | |
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| ▲ | breezybottom 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Since when do AI companies care about copyright law? They're destroying them so their competitors can't use them. |
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| ▲ | gpt5 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | A little meta - I want to point out demagogic/populist comments like these that try to clear all nuance and brush a topic in black and white tend to come from a really small portion of the users here, but the same user (whose account is only 4 months old), dominates posts like this by posting many many bait-like comments in the same post that deviate the discussion away from meaning and insight. This is just one example, but it has become unfortunately common across all social media platforms. | |
| ▲ | alightsoul 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Since they had to pay 1.5 billion for it | | |
| ▲ | freejazz 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | You'd think they could've negotiated something better than $3k per work if they had actually gone to the table first. |
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| ▲ | eru 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > They're destroying them so their competitors can't use them. That's pretty silly. My competitor can't ride my bike either, and I didn't have to destroy the bike for that to be true. |
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