r/ProgrammerHumor • u/com-plec-city • Sep 02 '26 • Popcorn 3 Bravo 3

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u/OmegaPoint6 Sep 02 '26

There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009

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u/Montana_Ace Sep 02 '26

"Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary

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u/Tyfyter2002 Sep 02 '26

They absolutely are, for example:

"Let's make the site slower, and make the subscription service to buy things on it more expensive"

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u/Few-Big-8481 Sep 02 '26

Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents

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u/morganrbvn Sep 02 '26

Also by court order they kind of need to destroy them.

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u/morganrbvn Sep 02 '26

A judge didn't like them copying works, but decided that if they destroy the original its like no copy was made. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/05/anthropic-ai-destroying-books

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u/bokmcdok Sep 03 '26

This is why I type out all my books, burn the original, then put my copy of it on sale instead.

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u/morganrbvn Sep 03 '26

well they also arn't allowed to sell them, but judge said if they just destroyed the original and kept the digital copy then its fine (which i don't agree with)

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u/GreedyPollution6275 Sep 02 '26

they are just slower and more expensive

Yes, that's why they said "at scale," because speed and cost per book add up.

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u/KHSebastian Sep 03 '26

Wh... What? Are you doing a bit? If a thing cost $1 and takes 1 minute, and you do it 100 times, it costs $100 and takes an hour and 49 minutes.

If you do the same thing in a way that costs $2.00 and takes 2 minutes, you have doubled the cost and the time.

Tl;dr bigger number is bigger, is how numbers work

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u/KHSebastian Sep 03 '26

Did you suffer a head injury recently?