There’s a huge difference, an absolute chasm, between non-destructive scanning, which was always an option by the way, for the purposes of putting it in a public archive

Like Anna’s Archive, or Sci-Hub. Famously legal.

If only they uploaded everything to those archives, the scanning would be perfectly fiiiiine.

You could take those downvotes as an invitation to check if those other stories (environmental, economical, societal) hold up any better.