Post #3381619

2026-06-23 10:54 UTC

ponzi scheme capitalists: and we’re going to hoard and burn all the RAM and nobody will be able to buy RAM anymore me: pfff whatever computers suck anyway I would never buy a computer, besides they have too much RAM these days, 512MB ought to be enough for everybody ponzi scheme capitalists: we’re also going to hoard all SSDs me: great, maybe people will go back to writing things on sustainable and attention-friendly paper and leave a bit of a durable legacy, like old books ponzi scheme capitalists: old books, you say? tell me more about those old books of yours me: ｮﾟДﾟ)o srf.ch/…/jagd-auf-alte-buecher-ki-firmen-kaufen-a…

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@YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 2026-06-23 13:41

“The assumption is: you have to physically own the books and destroy them after ‘reading’ them – in order to argue that no unauthorized copy remains in circulation and that it qualifies as fair use,” the bookseller says of the presumed logic behind it. Have any actual courts ruled in favor of this nonsense? Because I thought fair use was tied to things like public benefit and transformation more than a direct number of copies. Like, I’m pretty sure that I’m not allowed to fax a book to myself even if I put the original through a shredder, and that’s ignoring the question of how much gets inexorably lost in the process.

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@schnoopy@awful.systems 2026-06-23 23:01

Nothing drives away the “are we the baddies?” thoughts like the warmth coming off a book pyre.

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