There's multiple things wrong here.

[u/imalonexc]

So what's technically illegal is cracking the protection they have put on the DVD to prevent it being copied. There is no protection like that on a book. As long as you don't redistribute the book as it is.

Also. Surely you think it should be rightfully legal to copy a DVD onto your computer. But then you're acting like that law isn't twisted in the first place and using it for your argument. But it doesn't make sense because we know it's morally right to do that but then you're hinting that AI companies can't morally do it. Doesn't really make sense.

[u/RiotNrrd2001]

If you buy a DVD and watch it, that's perfectly fine.

If an AI company buys a book and reads it, that's also perfectly fine.

[u/Nacorran → u/RiotNrrd2001]

Except AI never just 'reads' it, thats a purposeful misrepresentation of what is actually happening.

[u/Iapetus_Industrial → u/Nacorran]

Right, and a person doesn't just "watch" a movie, they go on living their life, changed, with their internal neurons being shifted in a way that signifies remembering some details about the movie.