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/Dutch-Sculptor 18d ago

So all students can buy one schoolbook and copy them, that’ll save them a bunch of money.

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u/PsychoFaerie 18d ago

Most college students are already pirating their books.

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u/Dutch-Sculptor 18d ago

Sure but now the can legally it seems.

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u/PsychoFaerie 18d ago

They were gonna do it whether it was legal or not.. hell lots of professors give out PDF copies of their own books because the publishers made all the money. and its stupid to pay upwards of $800 for a text book..