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- Hacker News
- There's nothing in this article supporting the claim that rare books are being destroyed, it just has a link to a paywalled article from 404 Media.by Analemma_
- Tech crunch used to be tech news, now it’s ai slop with a biased agenda.
- Another discussion on this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336050
- Well they have to destroy them after scanning, else it is a copyright violation. Maybe not in the US, but in a lot of jurisdictions you are allowed to make copies/scans of Books, CDs etc. but if you sell the media, you have to delete the copy.
Given that anthropic was just fined a $1bn fee for torrenting/piracy, we cant really blame the companies for shredding the books after a scan. We should blame copyright laws.