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Comment by pjc50

7 months ago

> public education system and public library network

Public libraries do pay reader royalties.

I don't know, I've been on the side of weaker copyright; Aaron Schwartz was driven to suicide, sci-hub is one of the most blocked sites on the Internet. But now it turns out that IP is simply a matter of power. There isn't really a difference between sci-hub / libgen and the scraped training databases other than having money, which suddenly means the rules don't apply.