Comment by TheOtherHobbes

Copyright notices in books make it absolutely clear - you are not allowed to acquire a text by copying it without authorisation.

If you photocopy a book you haven't paid for, you've infringed copyright. If you scan it, you've infringed copyright. If you OCR the scan, you've infringed copyright.

There's legal precedent in going after torrenters and z-lib etc.

So when Zuckerberg told the Meta team to do the same, he was on the wrong side of precedent.

Arguing otherwise is literally arguing that huge corporations are somehow above laws that apply to normal people.

Obviously some people do actually believe this. Especially the people who own and work for huge corporations.

But IMO it's far more dangerous culturally and politically than copyright law is.