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Re:What happened to Google's effort to scan university libra... by mcguire on Thursday February 13, 2020 @01:24PM (#22320023)
Does it make you feel any better that most of the texts over a decade old are permanently out of print and thus valueless, and that the hideous legal problem only applies to a tiny fraction of the works in question?
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Re:What happened to Google's effort to scan university libra... by marvindanig on Thursday February 13, 2020 @01:41PM (#22320184)
Not to mention how much of Amazon's rainforest have been/are being razed to ground to make way for pulp farming for the dead trees. It's scary and stupid both.
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Re:What happened to Google's effort to scan university libra... by ars on Thursday February 13, 2020 @02:41PM (#22320743)
Are you being sarcastic? Amazon rainforest wood is not used for paper, the trees are cut down for farmland, not for the wood.

There are far better sources of wood, but land is more scarce.

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Re:What happened to Google's effort to scan university libra... by marvindanig on Thursday February 13, 2020 @08:43PM (#22323273)
Who said anything about using old trees for book pulp? Pulp farming requires arable land which is taken away from rainforests.
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