Therein lies the rub: they didn't buy them... They pirated digital copies of them. See, e.g.: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libgen-met

Therein lies the rub: they didn't buy them... They pirated digital copies of them. See, e.g.: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libgen-meta-openai/682093/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libge...