Comment by ACCount37
7 hours ago
Niche text. It's not impossible that there was only ever under a thousand of them printed and released into circulation.
A digital copy would exist somewhere, of course. But for us, that only matters if we can buy or download it. And for AI companies, that only matters if they can get a digital copy DRM-free and licensed permissively enough.
This argument doesn't make any sense. All manner of AI companies just ingest whatever random text they can find on the internet to train their data, including copyrighted publications. Why would DRM on a digital copy of a book matter?
There might be special rules around DRM that go beyond normal copyright?
Ladies and gentlemen, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
(which is terrible, but I would be delighted if they breached it and got thoroughly spanked)
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> Why would DRM on a digital copy of a book matter?
Because DRM is just a way to make "breaking copyright" more practically cumbersome. What's easier, breaking digital DRM for each and every E-book you find, or just establishing a single pipeline for scanning physical books?
breaking DRM is so easy my generation was doing it as kids, there is no technical obstacle there.
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