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halsafartoday at 4:45 AM2 repliesview on HN

Can you get the exact text back out with a prompt or not? Having or not having a book isn't fuzzy.


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skeledrewtoday at 6:18 AM

Funnily the argument made just a few months ago by many rights holders who wanted their pound of flesh was that, if prompted a certain way, exact text could be retrieved.

margalabargalatoday at 4:55 AM

Having or not having a book is absolutely fuzzy. If you have a translation, do you have the book? Even if, like the Odyssey, there are hundreds of wildly varying translations? What about an abridged copy? What about the Sparknotes version? If you have a copy of Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, do you have a copy of Pride And Prejudice? Certainly more so than if you have neither.

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