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It’s not that different to the US helping itself to indigenous peoples’ lands in North America, decimating them with smallpox and alcohol, then generously offer
by rich_sasha 8d ago
It’s not that different to the US helping itself to indigenous peoples’ lands in North America, decimating them with smallpox and alcohol, then generously offering reservations.
At least it’s consistent, is what I’m saying.
- ks2048 8d agoGenocide vs non-destructive copying of digital information - I'd say that's pretty different.
- m4rtink 8d agoAsk Anthropic how non-destructive their copying is, when the clandestinely buy rare books for cheap & shred them after scanning and not sharing the result.
- KingMob 8d agoFirst, most of these books are old and plentiful, not rare at all. Think "Master Windows Exxcel '95!", not first editions of "Master and Margarita". Libraries routinely destroy plentiful old books that nobody is reading any more. Anything actually rare and valuable is too pricey to hand over. Second, they HAVE to destroy the books because US copyright law REQUIRES it. They're only allowed to digitize the books if it's considered "transformation" and not "copying". That's only allowed if they destroy the book afterwards.
- ks2048 7d agoThat's true, but the article was about "scraping".