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gieldtoday at 8:01 AM2 repliesview on HN

What do you mean with "then took the scans home"? Anthropic et al didn't buy all the books in the world and kept them for themselves.


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meindnochtoday at 8:05 AM

Correct, they torrented them. I just wanted to stick to the library analogy of the parent comment.

jacheetoday at 8:07 AM

Therein lies the rub: they didn't buy them... They pirated digital copies of them.

See, e.g.: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libge...