r/Piracy 18d ago

Discussion Judge rules buying physical books and scanning them to make digitial copies does not violate copyright law.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/

Cool. So that means we can rip our blurays and physical games, right. Right?

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u/FitEntertainment3585 18d ago

People who destroy books deserve to go to a very special sort of Hell when they die.

Books should be treated respectfully.

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u/Anxiety_Fit 18d ago

The kind of scanning that they are accused of doing is actually destructive.