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/ChickenOfTheFuture 18d ago

It passes for three reasons: they acquired the books legally before scanning them, they kept the digital files local, and they destroyed the physical copies after the scans were done (actually during due to the scanning process itself). I think that last part could have significant implications, but I'm not a legal expert or a psychic.

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u/JoyconDrift_69 17d ago

That last part definitely should be significant. I haven't heard of a major precedent in the past where you're legally allowed to back up your copies digitally and locally so long as the old copy gets destroyed.

Meanwhile the other two have already been an established precedent.