> Buying millions of ebooks online would take a lot of effort Let me put that into perspective: - Googling "how many books exist" gives me ~150 million, no id

> Buying millions of ebooks online would take a lot of effort Let me put that into perspective: - Googling "how many books exist" gives me ~150 million, no idea how accurate but let's use that. - Meta had a net profit of ~40 billion USD in 2023. - That could be an potential investment of ~250 USD per book acquisition. That sounds like a ludicrously high budget to me. So yeah, Meta could very well pay. It would still not be ethical to slurp up all that content into their slop machine but there is zero justification to pirate it all, with these kinds of money involved.