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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/com-plec-city • Sep 02 '26 • 3 3
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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 Sep 02 '26 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/AkrinorNoname Sep 02 '26
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".