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by slopinthebag 37 days ago
> obtain the rights of everything they pirated

They didn't just pirate those books...
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cubefox 36 days ago
If we assume on average $20 per legally obtained book, 1.5 billion dollars are enough for 75 million books. That's approximately every non-fiction book in existence.
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slopinthebag 36 days ago
Why would we assume $20 a book? Many books retail for more, and a licence to use the book for commercial purposes is more than retail.
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