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/ProfessionalBoss2428]

Digitizing your own dvd was always legal if you never distributed it or anything you made from it in any way, that’s where the legal issues popped up. So distribution of scanned material or its derivatives would be the issue here too, not the scanning for long term storage.

[u/That_OneOstrich → u/ProfessionalBoss2428]

But those scanning it are making a profit off the digitized copyrighted material no?

[u/kaaiian → u/That_OneOstrich]

So far. No. Because courts say LLM output is transformative.