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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by bobbylarrybobby on Friday October 17, 2025 @11:21AM (#45617813)
I think they would've been allowed to do the scanning even without destroying the originals. AFAIK destroying the originals was just done to facilitate scanning — they needed the pages to be loose sheets, not bound.
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Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM by criddell on Friday October 17, 2025 @11:26AM (#45617864)
They scanned then shredded the books so that publishers couldn't claim an unauthorized copy was made. All Anthropic did was a format shift which is allowed.
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