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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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