Is it spyware if it has no mechanism to phone home? Full disclosure: I don’t know if these do in fact have that capability.

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.

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.

I’d say the taste, personally.

As long as the links match, they are technically being shown more correct information that way.

Ok? That doesn’t answer my question, if anything it makes it more obvious how you are incorrect:

If a [insert digital format name] already exists, as you claim, then why go to the trouble of obtaining, destroying, and scanning the books again?

Your response reads like there are more options than just PDF, so it’s fine to destroy the books.

Because Reddit is centralized. They control everything from the site to the app.

Lemmy is very much different, where every instance handles the data individually. And that data isn’t natively pushed to your phone, that would be something handled by an intermediary that your app is running.

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.

In certain situations I’d agree that the absence of contradiction is evidence enough, but those situations are pretty specific. For example, we don’t have absolute proof that orange juice doesn’t cause cancer, our “proof” comes from the lack of reliable evidence showing that it does, along with relevant research. But that doesn’t mean every claim can be treated the same way. But that doesn’t mean every claim can be treated the same way, especially a claim based only on “every article I saw,” without a source being provided.

That’d be an app feature would it not?

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.

So you have the digital source of literally any book? Literally any single book you yourself didn’t write or publish.

Because the source code for GTA6 exists, but you sure as shit don’t have it.

every article I saw says the books were scheduled to be destroyed or taken to a dump

Do you have a source for this? Because I’ve seen literally nothing about this being the way books are being sourced. And no offense but this reads way too close to weasel words. For example: Every article I’ve read on the subject says my pants are sentient and enjoys my legs being in them. Also, I’ve read no articles on the subject so that isn’t a lie.

There are many, many non destructive scanning methods. My understanding is that most archival projects are using the non destructive options.

The easy option is to just slice off the binding and run it through a scanner.

The easy option is what is being talked about here, and those books are then fed into AI as training material. The digital copies aren’t “making knowledge permanent” as they are tucked away into a digital corner virtually no one has access to. They are as permanent as the source code for Fortnite.

If a PDF already exists, as you claim, then why go to the trouble of obtaining, destroying and scanning the books again?

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

The first time was a lark. Anything after that though, yeah I agree 100%.

Nah, the DMCAs are legit, because the repos are sharing cryptographic keys.

I’ve not looked at the repos, but ideally they’d be secondary “we aren’t affiliated with the main repo *wink wink*” that can just be recreated while the main emulation repo is left alone.

I doubt that’s all of them though, but any of the ones that are both the emulator and keys in one was just waiting to be taken down. Terrible opsec.

Because you’re blocking a large chunk of the content.

This feels silly.

Is your solution for them to just never crosspost? So they pick one community and never share with anyone on an instance that is defederated?

If the problem is they are cross posting to similar communities you’re subscribed to, why not just… unsubscribe from the duplicate communities?

What’s fun is if they twist things to the point that airports are a border.

Boss wouldn’t even listen to using a nonce per call because the caller and target used different databases. Same back end, just different databases.