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   mushroom_soup (mushroom_soup@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 00:25:49 JST mushroom_soup
   Very cool and normal
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 00:25:47 JST Blurry Moon

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     @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
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 00:25:48 JST Blurry Moon

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     @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)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 00:25:48 JST mushroom_soup

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     • Blurry Moon
     @sun It's because of this specific legal loophole
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 00:27:15 JST lainy

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     @sun @mushroom_soup @Nudhul these aren't gutenberg bibels, they are random trash books that nobody else wants, like "the thinking man's guide to office 97"
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     Nudhul (nudhul@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 00:27:16 JST Nudhul

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     • Blurry Moon
     @sun @mushroom_soup their right is to hoard knowledge and do absolutely nothing with it
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 00:27:16 JST Blurry Moon

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     • Nudhul
     @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.
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     mushroom_soup (mushroom_soup@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 04:36:13 JST mushroom_soup

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     @lain @sun @Nudhul I don't think books should be destroyed to feed to the AI machine no matter what they are
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 04:37:35 JST lainy

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     @mushroom_soup @Nudhul @sun really? 2000 sudokus being shredded is an issue that tests our humanity?