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

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393 points pyman | 1 comments | 07 Jul 25 09:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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m4rtink ◴[07 Jul 25 17:21 UTC] No.44492553[source]▶
Anyone else thinks destroying books for any reason is wrong ?

Or is it perhaps not an universal cultural/moral aspect ?

I guess for example in Europe people could be more sensitive to it.

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1. lawlessone ◴[07 Jul 25 17:23 UTC] No.44492579[source]▶
If they aren't one of a kind and they digitally preserved them in some way i think i would be ok with it.

Saying that though there are tools for digitizing books that don't require destroying them