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I don’t think that’s the argument you think it is.
The outrage is over the books being destructively scanned, en mass, and held in private after the fact. Very, very, very different than the majority of scanning which is non destructive, and usually shared.
'En mass'
No. That's not what that means.
They destroyed (a) copy they bought. That is not en mass.
you didn't buy it. It's their copy.
They didn't destroy all copies. Go buy yourself one of you wanted it so bad. You can support the author too.
If they buy 100k books and destroy them all, even if every one is unique, that is en mass. I don’t know why I have to explain that to you, but there you go.
They bought each one as a copy. They aren't taking all copies of all books.
Not sure why I have to explain basic math to you but here we are. Learn math bro.
And get if they are recycling THEIR ONE COPY OF EACH which they no longer use that isn't illegal nor worth an outrage. That's how recycling and reducing waste works. Better than hoarding.
Do feel free to go buy a copy and support the author if you're this passionate to get enraged over what someone does with their own one single copy.
And if there are three copies of that book?
I don’t get it, you’re acting like every book has an infinite number of copies available. Which is just factually incorrect.
No one here is stopping you from buying a copy. So stop talking like we are.
In fact a good idea would be you buy a copy, scan it, share it to all those who you feel would hurt from it being so withheld.
then you can stop whining about finite copies.
Problem solved.
Lmao, I don’t see much point in talking with you, you’d be happily skipping around while books were being burned telling people it’s fine, there are plenty of other books, these ones aren’t theirs.