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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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mushroom_soup@mushroom_soup@poa.st (2026-08-18 09:36:01)
@sun It's because of this specific legal loophole
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Blurry Moon@sun@shitposter.world (2026-08-18 09:45:35)
@mushroom_soup I looked it up and what the court decided was:
if you duplicate a book you have to destroy the original, because that is "transformative" not a "reproduction" which is a right only the publisher has.
but after you turn it into a digital file, you can copy it as many times as you want.
so this is obviously completely insane because who gives a shit if you have 499 digital copies and one print copy, or 500 digital copies, this is completely because of our stupid copyright system