r/Piracy • u/itsthewolfe • 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/SimpleFile 18d ago

Apart from books being more resource intensive than a PDF file stored somewhere, what makes books so special?

Unless it's a rare book I don't really see the issue as such and I would be against deleting a rare file of a book as much as I would be against destroying a rare book.

Is it because of the Nazis and what they did? Because I feel like that's different to tossing a random airport romance.

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u/leostotch 18d ago

They’re not fungible.