Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge

Anyone read the 2006 sci-fi book Rainbow's End that has this? It was set in 2025.

I was 100% thinking this. GREAT book. And they, too, shredded books to ingest them into the digital library! I don't recall if it was an attempt to bypass copyright though; in Rainbow's End, it was more technical, as it was easier to shred, scan the pieces, and reassemble them in software, rather than scanning each page.