The fuck I have. Explain yourself.
I have consistently told you: this is legal because of copyright law, and you should want that law weakened so the parts you despise are not mandatory.
To your late edit: I know these doomed companies would brag about sharing their scans of individual rare books because it would be cheaper than the effort to do it in secret, and better marketing than the endless screeching after they were inevitably found out. Tell me otherwise. Walk me through how any company would rather suffer this game of telephone where it sounds like they're burning down libraries, if they could instead announce how much good they've done for the world, never-you-mind their naked underlying motives.
Recently someone scoffed - "It sounds like you’re comparing the most reasonable views of the pro-AI crowd to the most reactionary views of the anti-AI crowd." Threads like this are why. Threads like this are all there is. This is in the goddamn LocalLLaMA community, and I still have to deal with irrational insulting nonsense - for saying "libraries are for reeeadiiing."
