As AI tech companies increasingly buy and destroy books to feed to their AI models, Anna’s Archive is calling for volunteers to help preserve them for the public record.

  • Derpenheim@lemmy.zip
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    3 hours ago

    Im gonna be real chief. Stop worrying about IP legality. Scan and upload everything you can get your hands on, wherever you can reasonably upload it.

    AI companies are violating all copyright laws at all times of day and then destroying the originals, or even DMCA claiming them. You cannot fight that and be worried about legality.

    • Courtney (she/her/they) @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      50 minutes ago

      I have repurposed an old Xbox external drive and have been ripping every optical disc in my extended family’s houses as well as opened it up to friends, anyone who wants to add to the collection is welcome to take from it, all I have to do is bring the drive with me, and they can grab whatever they want off it.

      Fuck IP laws, fuck trademarks, fuck copyright.

      If companies get to arbitrarily decide we can’t have access to things (especially if you have given someone money for it), then why should we give a fuck what they think?