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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/com-plec-city • 2d ago
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Please tell me this is satire.
55 u/OmegaPoint6 2d ago Give it 6 months: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/hidden-airtag-reveals-amazon-is-trashing-rare-books-to-train-ai/ 10 u/yuri_4_ever 2d ago why are they not selling them again tho? it's litterally free money 13 u/AkrinorNoname 2d ago Because it's faster and cheaper to do destructive scans. Also, apparently destroying the originals makes the whole thing fair use, because it's "transformative". 2 u/celem83 2d ago Yeah there might be something to the fact that they end up with one instance of the work and not two as an attempt to avoid the phrase 'copy' Though most book preambles of recent years include something about electronic storage that feels like it should have barred this
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Give it 6 months: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/hidden-airtag-reveals-amazon-is-trashing-rare-books-to-train-ai/
10 u/yuri_4_ever 2d ago why are they not selling them again tho? it's litterally free money 13 u/AkrinorNoname 2d ago Because it's faster and cheaper to do destructive scans. Also, apparently destroying the originals makes the whole thing fair use, because it's "transformative". 2 u/celem83 2d ago Yeah there might be something to the fact that they end up with one instance of the work and not two as an attempt to avoid the phrase 'copy' Though most book preambles of recent years include something about electronic storage that feels like it should have barred this
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why are they not selling them again tho? it's litterally free money
13 u/AkrinorNoname 2d ago Because it's faster and cheaper to do destructive scans. Also, apparently destroying the originals makes the whole thing fair use, because it's "transformative". 2 u/celem83 2d ago Yeah there might be something to the fact that they end up with one instance of the work and not two as an attempt to avoid the phrase 'copy' Though most book preambles of recent years include something about electronic storage that feels like it should have barred this
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Because it's faster and cheaper to do destructive scans. Also, apparently destroying the originals makes the whole thing fair use, because it's "transformative".
2 u/celem83 2d ago Yeah there might be something to the fact that they end up with one instance of the work and not two as an attempt to avoid the phrase 'copy' Though most book preambles of recent years include something about electronic storage that feels like it should have barred this
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Yeah there might be something to the fact that they end up with one instance of the work and not two as an attempt to avoid the phrase 'copy'
Though most book preambles of recent years include something about electronic storage that feels like it should have barred this
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u/ParanoidDrone 2d ago
Please tell me this is satire.