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[–] [email protected] 83 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was looking for resources for a custom LLM and noticed they had a ton of copyrighted books and wondered to myself how the heck that was legal

I guess this answers that

[–] [email protected] 102 points 4 months ago (60 children)

Just like regular libraries have copyrighted books: they lend them to one person at a time.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They definitely weren't monitoring the one at a time rule... I downloaded the file and now have it forever

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a you problem. ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How does that make sense? How does putting a "Download PDF" button on their site with no restrictions make this a "me" problem?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

You should obviously delete those downloaded files like a good boy.

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