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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-08-18 09:29:13)
@mushroom_soup google was doing the same thing but making them available as free PDFs until publishers got together and sued the program out of existence. This is entirely the fault of publishers and "rights"-holders.
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Nudhul@Nudhul@shitposter.world (2026-08-18 09:31:38)
@sun @mushroom_soup their right is to hoard knowledge and do absolutely nothing with it

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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-08-18 09:33:41)
@Nudhul @mushroom_soup anybody in the last 20 years could have organized a crowdfund to get a rare book to project gutenberg to get it scanned and made free to everyone if it was out of copyright.