Post #4249734

2026-07-30 15:46 UTC

@overholt@glammr.us I have a lot of ebooks around, but I've occasionally made a point of buying physical books, in part because digital data is so vulnerable. Even the DRM-free epub files are vulnerable to the decay of storage media with short lifespans. The mass destruction of physical books seems like an intentional threat. People talk about this being the result of a grotesque judicial interpretation of copyright law, but I don't think "AI" companies care about law that much. They seem to violate laws pretty frequently. This looks to me like a deliberate act of violence. They actually intend to destroy physical books.

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@martinvermeer@fediscience.org 2026-07-30 16:10

@foolishowl@social.coop @overholt@glammr.us AI companies will step over laws gladly when those get in their way. That does not apply here: it's ridiculously easy to destroy a paper book to keep up the pretense of only moving the work to a different medium (questionable BTW), and the books' second-hand value is negligible.

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@gildilinie@beige.party 2026-07-30 18:12

@foolishowl@social.coop @overholt@glammr.us they were doing this before any lawsuit judgements. in fact they've been doing it for years

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@NatureMC@mastodon.online 2026-07-31 07:46

@foolishowl@social.coop Sounds realistic. Their bosses are part of fascist #TESCREAL ideologies and preach eugenics. If someone wants to destroy humans, they also destroy #books. Known from the Nazis until Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 ... Fortunately, the national libraries in the EU keep a copy of each published book but they have less money/place to do it ... #bookstodon #writersCommunity #libraries #librairiesAndArchives @overholt@glammr.us

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