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Re:Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (... by phatfish on Sunday July 05, 2026 @03:02AM (#48791908)
It's almost as if we are in a comment section where most peoples jobs exist due to "content" either being stolen (AI most recently) or crowd sourced under EULAs that effectively steal it.

Not that I think a back door to the shit Disney and other corporate content onwers pull is nessecarily a bad thing. But it is funny to see people here gaslight themselves into believing they have some moral right to just take what others have created.

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Re:Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (... by squibonpig on Sunday July 05, 2026 @04:32PM (#48797702)
I don't think the majority here work for ai companies and I also see a lot of people critical of AI and copyright violations by ai companies. They're also very clearly different things, one is done on a massive scale by a company for profit and another is done by one person to use the work in the way it was intended to be used.
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