We all took the DVD boom era for granted

Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted by goosedragons on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @11:15AM (#42389292)

All you need to make a copy of a physical book these days is a scanner or camera. Even a smartphone is usable. The only thing stopping people from making copies of physical books these days is that it's time consuming. That's it.

And that can easily be reduced to a few minutes with a decent feed scanner and a knife if you don't care about keeping the original in easily readable condition.

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Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted by dylan604 on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @11:30AM (#42389477)

ohmuhgawd becky, look at the pedantry on this one.

this does not refute the vast majority claim that i made. the skill set involved in what you describe is, a) ridiculous, b) way more difficult than just buying another copy of the book, c) if no more copies available, who's going to destroy a book like that?, d) see a

edit: e) google and archive.com cases show this is not allowed. google just did it at such a massive scale that they were beyond the law, and archive.com didn't

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Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted by goosedragons on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @01:06PM (#42390759)

It's not difficult and involves basically no skill set. There's a billion apps to help you scan documents and output a PDF. It's even built into mobile OSs at this point. It's just time consuming,that's it!

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