Here is the original story: https://www.techradar.com/streaming/youll-own-nothing-and-youll-like-it-google-pulls-the-lord-of-the-rings-digital-editions-from-one-users-library-our-latest-reminder-that-digital-purchases-arent-always-forever
It seems they paid for it and were not given a refund or replacement.
I read The machine stops short story and I really hope we don't head that direction, but it seems we are.
I think the most expensive book I ever purchased I believe is The Art of Berserk for around a $100 due to tax and customs sinc eI ordered it from Japan. Also the book is put of print which makes it expensive. I do have manga boxsets, but these are multiple books so I don't think they account. So my most expensive books are art books.
Don't forget that you can't use VPN now, use the web version on mobile, and most accounts gets banned as soon as they are created by the automod.
We are not talking about 1 or 2 companies this is the KOSPI similar to S&P in US. This worse than 2008 for Korea. Additionally many Koreans use leverage which means they were margin called and some are even in debt now.
The collapse surpasses the October 1997 IMF crisis, when the index lost 27%, and the October 2008 global financial crisis at 23%.
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/south-korea-stock-market-crash-092957385.html
To fix the situation the government intervened and poured NT$450 Billion investment into AI.
https://finance.biggo.com/news/b4b67689-a989-445f-810c-9cb92bca140f
It depends on why the books is rare, some books are rare because they are not popular while other because they were banned. For example I know a novel were the English translation is easily available, but the original language is rare because it was banned in the original language in multiple countries. Don't forget collecter artbooks that were never digitised.
If we have access to the digital copies then Yes, but we don't have access to them, they are turned into training data for AI.
It is in the article doesn't matter if you remove it. The moment the article became public it is already too late.
It sill works, you get first name and last name.
Reading Wool by Hugh Howey and H.P Lovecraft complete story collection.
Currently reading No longer human, wool (Silo), and Berserk.