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Which book that was rare was destroyed? I'm interested to know a few titles.
by thechao 2mo ago
Which book that was rare was destroyed? I'm interested to know a few titles.
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- Cynddl 2mo agoThe 404media article mentions notably https://nltimes.nl/2026/06/25/rare-book-dealers-fear-tech-firms-destroying-obscure-editions-train-ai-models https://nltimes.nl/2026/06/25/rare-book-dealers-fear-tech-fi... which says: > The attachment contained 3,000 English-language titles organized by ISBN number, including books such as Distinct Element Modelling in Geomechanics by K.R. Saxena (1999); Barrett's Traditional Fairy Tales (2021), an academic study of Irish folklore; and Laser Shock Peening of Advanced Ceramics by Pratik Shukla (2018).
- infinite_spin 2mo ago> Barrett's Traditional Fairy Tales (2021) How is a book from 2021 considered rare in this context? There's almost certainly a digital copy of it in existence prior to Anthropic purchasing a print edition.
- ACCount37 2mo agoNiche text. It's not impossible that there was only ever under a thousand of them printed and released into circulation. A digital copy would exist somewhere, of course. But for us, that only matters if we can buy or download it. And for AI companies, that only matters if they can get a digital copy DRM-free and licensed permissively enough.
- sidewndr46 2mo agoThis argument doesn't make any sense. All manner of AI companies just ingest whatever random text they can find on the internet to train their data, including copyrighted publications. Why would DRM on a digital copy of a book matter?
- eru 2mo agoThere might be special rules around DRM that go beyond normal copyright?
- jdub 2mo agoLadies and gentlemen, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (which is terrible, but I would be delighted if they breached it and got thoroughly spanked)
- sidewndr46 2mo agoso if I base64 encode my blog, have some Javascript that 'validates' an authorized viewer and then decodes the base64 into HTML which is added to the DOM does that constitute DRM ?
- pessimizer 2mo agoYes.
- goldlimetea 2mo ago[dead]
- efreak 2mo agoThe DMCA doesn't care exactly how the authorization works, it only cares that it's needed. Quote from Wikipedia[0] of DMCA section 103: > No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. > "circumvent a technological measure" means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner; and > a technological measure "effectively controls access to a work" if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention_laws#Circumvention_of_Access_Controls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention_laws#Circum...
- tokai 2mo agoNon of those are rare. All a available in libraries for ILL.
- timmmmmmay 2mo agoso... not rare, then? another fear mongering article lying to everyone.
- andrepd 2mo agoRare or not, destroying books is in itself a morally repugnant act. I don't know man, it's not so long ago we used to view nazi book burnings as an archetype of evil. Today companies are offering book-burning-as-a-service and it hardly causes a stir. Bearded German man was right.
- Gander5739 2mo agoWell, there's a difference between destroying books to erase knowledge and control people, and destroying books because it's cheaper.
- robertoandred 2mo agoEasy claim to make when you’re not responsible for storing those books.
- JodieBenitez 2mo ago> destroying books is in itself a morally repugnant act It's a routine act in any publisher stock management.
- SwtCyber 2mo ago[dead]
- skeledrew 2mo agoIs it destruction or format shift? Technically the books still exist; just that they're now digital. There's no content loss (what I imagine comprises a "book") unless any digitization is then deleted.