🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're
People bitched because they’ve turned justified criticism into an identarian search for pretense - which is why they’re still bitching, when these companies follow the rules!
One. One copy of of every book. (Per company, but still, it’s a narrow field.)
They’re not seeking out antique dusty tomes for a king’s ransom. They’re checking off ISBNs for anything that got published. That’s usually only rare when nobody bought copies because nobody cared. Anything older than Steamboat Willie is on Project Gutenberg, free for the taking.
And I remind anyone still cross - if you’re against them just using torrents, this is what you’re asking for. This is the completely above-board alternative, done in a sensible manner.
Every fucking week with this story.
Stop posting pearl-clutching headlines like it’s a library firebombing campaign.
People bitched because it’s an extraordinarily clear “rules for thee but not for me” situation.
People bitched because they’ve turned justified criticism into an identarian search for pretense - which is why they’re still bitching, when these companies follow the rules!
I think more than the concern is that the book is destroyed after
One. One copy of of every book. (Per company, but still, it’s a narrow field.)
They’re not seeking out antique dusty tomes for a king’s ransom. They’re checking off ISBNs for anything that got published. That’s usually only rare when nobody bought copies because nobody cared. Anything older than Steamboat Willie is on Project Gutenberg, free for the taking.
And I remind anyone still cross - if you’re against them just using torrents, this is what you’re asking for. This is the completely above-board alternative, done in a sensible manner.