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gield 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Statement on US government directive to suspend ac...

What do you mean with "then took the scans home"? Anthropic et al didn't buy all the books in the world and kept them for themselves.

meindnoch 3 months ago | [–]

Correct, they torrented them. I just wanted to stick to the library analogy of the parent comment.

jachee 3 months ago | [–]

Therein lies the rub: they didn't buy them... They pirated digital copies of them.

See, e.g.: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libge...

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