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Capitalism always creates perverse incentives. The most profitable thing you can do is seize something readily available and make it impossible to get without paying you.
But which companies are doing this? It sounds like these are companies that supply training data to AI companies. I think we need names.
If its public domain couldn't anyone else with a copy make it freely available
They destroy them to comply with fair use laws. A judge in San Francisco ruled this practice as fair use.
I think rare here may just mean misprints or something else rather than them destroying the one and only copy of books
No, they plunder antiquitarian book shops around the globe. There exist very few copies of those books around and they sure aren't digitized anywhere.
Like the mangrove forests in Africa and Asia. Scarcity is a feature, not a bug.
I misread that as:
... and realized that also tracks.