I don’t see this going anywhere. The companies bought the books, what they do with them after that is their business. Reprehensible, yes, but a massive stretch to consider this illegal.

There’s also a lot of ground between “Buying one copy of a book to scan” and “Destroying all copies of a book.” If they’re buying these in bulk it’s because there’s bulk to buy. Anything rare enough to be available in single digit numbers is selling at auction for six figures.

Look, I get it, this sucks, but there aren’t exactly a lot of legal remedies here. This is more of a “Capitalism fucking sucks and we need to dismantle it” kind of deal.

Every part of our humanity that Silicon Valley touches turns to shit. They’re the destroyers of our human estate; they destroy all that we created over the years that makes us us. They suck out the value, and we’re left with ash. In this case, you can see it literally. I genuinely hate Silicon Valley people.

What would you do if someone entered your home and turned everything you value into ash?