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scotty79yesterday at 9:22 PM1 replyview on HN

This is such a petty and impotent ruling. If you want to ban them from using culture to make derivative works without proper compensation then do that.

But if you don't want to ban them, telling them to buy one book of each, likely second hand, is complete pettiness that resulted in destructive scanning of millions of books, many of which were already practically available in digital form.


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grueztoday at 12:19 AM

>This is such a petty and impotent ruling. If you want to ban them from using culture to make derivative works without proper compensation then do that.

That's because the judges are supposed to rule on questions of law (ie. "is AI training fair use?"), not whether they think AI's good or not.