[madaxe_again]

It absolutely is. By destroying the original they retain the one copy they were licensed. It explicitly discusses that this was judged fair use in a court of law, because of the destruction of the original, as this becomes a transformation of the original work rather than a duplication.

Don’t hate the player, hate the game.

[themaninthedark]

So what are they doing about the online data they ingested?

[ninkendo]

Copying it. Because they clearly believe that they’re allowed to do so.

For physical books, they believe they’re not allowed to, hence the destruction.

It’s abhorrent, I agree… maybe if your world domination plan involves destroying rare books, you should change the plan rather than saying “well our hands our tied, the law says we have to”

[inigyou]

I mean they used to have a different plan, which involved not destroying the books, and then they got sued for not destroying the books, by us, so now they are destroying the books. What did you think would happen?