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Aeolun on July 8, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downl...

> But if you tried to open a black market selling that media

Why would you ever do that? Nobody would buy it. They'd just get it in the same place you did.

bombcar on July 8, 2025 | [–]

You’d be surprised, almost any flea market/swap meet will still have bootleg DVDs and “PlayStation 2s” preloaded with a billion games.

Everyone can out a disk in a DVD player; sailing the high seas is much trickier.

johnnyanmac on July 8, 2025 | [–]

Undercut the competition, mainly. People will do a lot of things for a decent discount.

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