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Policy2026-08-21 · source-backed
The claim is bulk acquisition via intermediaries, destructive scanning, and pulping of originals to secure text predating the 2022 generative flood. Anthropic, Meta (81 terabytes of torrented ebooks) and Amazon are named. Anna's Archive 359 points, 266 comments, anchored on Judge Alsup's ruling that Anthropic's buy-scan-destroy pipeline was transformative fair use provided no duplicate copies remained, alongside the $1.5B Anthropic paid to settle. Anna's Archive is soliciting donations to scan rare volumes first, so read it with that interest in mind. Top commenters push back that most of this stock was headed to recycling anyway.
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US District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin granted final approval July 20, overruling objections that the sum was too small. The deal pays roughly $3,000 per work across 480,000+ works, four times the $750 statutory minimum, and requires Anthropic to destroy the 7M+ pirated boo...
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Reporting resurfacing on HN (739 points, 468 comments) and mainstream outlets documents bulk purchases of rare and out-of-print books, destructive scanning, then pulping. ISBNdb reportedly brokers anonymous orders from 1,000 up to a million titles, with buyers prioritizing pre...
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