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Comment Re:Hard to argue with this approach (Score 1) 122

There is no more clear case of fair use than this: buying physical books. Once a person or business buys a book, they don't get to continue to control what happens to that book.

But...what about AI regurgitating all that copyrighted data? Yes, it does regurgitate the data, but only in ways that are compatible with fair use. AI will never reproduce the entire work, or even large sections of it. At most, a paragraph or two. And this is exactly what humans do under fair use. We are allowed to quote small sections of the text, as long as we don't reproduce the work in bulk.

Personally, I think e-books ought to follow the same principle as physical books. You buy it, you can do what you want with it, as long as you don't republish it, and use it only for your own purposes. It should be *yours*.

yeah you guys are right. good call

Comment and here i though they were one of the good ones (Score 3, Insightful) 122

pretty wild how flagrant the coordinated copyright infringement operation was here. large payments from these deep pocketed oligopolies isn't enough to address the issue. clearly the material they are stealing is worth well in excess of the damages they're paying. we need a way to prevent the crime from happening in the first place. like proactively.

Comment rising electricity costs the only consideration? (Score 2) 33

don't let them build a data center b/c they promise to cover the electricity costs! corporate greed knows no bounds. we all know this by now. stand up and fight for what is yours, people! even if they agree to pay your electricity bills in full don't be duped by these scum bags.

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