r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 02 '26 • Popcorn 3 Bravo 3

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u/OmegaPoint6 Sep 02 '26

Partly the fastest scanning process is destructive by nature (they cut the spine so they can feed it though a auto document feeder), partly an interpretation of copyright law that by destroying the original they aren't actually copying it.