Comment by olalonde
7 days ago
Replace bison with some random animal no one's ever heard about, and photos with literal clones of the animal, and you've got a much better metaphor. Not to forget that in this world, brand new animals are created every day.
If you destroy a 17th century book, you can't make another one. Eventually you destroy them all.
As long as digital or physical copies exist, you can. Regardless, let's be real, nobody is destroying 17th-century books. The "rare" books we're talking about here still have copyright owners who just don't bother printing new copies due to a lack of demand.