made you look
Even if you didn’t have AWS and the like modern sites/tech products need a lot more hardware than your random desktop computer to work. And that needs to be housed somewhere.
They really don’t, everything is just hideously inefficient these days.
The ebook format is basically a subset of html if you ever look into it. And as time goes on ebook readers have different ways to show these books.
Funny thing is that browsers used to be the same, that’s why “CSS resets” were created.
Unnecessary these days as it’s a solved issue, for the wrong reasons.
It was routinely being gamed, made it kinda useless for semi popular stuff when you couldn’t tell if something was actually garbage, or just had upset the wrong people.
that is still connected to the company
The generic HEVC decoder was never free, what was free was the OEM version that comes pre-installed when you buy a new computer (Because the price is included in that).
But you always had to jump through hoops to get that version installed, it wasn’t ever something intended for end users.
The problem is that the US government is not willing to enforce this at all, because it is owned by the same billionaires as the AI companies.
That’d be an uphill battle, even prominent OSS projects would fight against that unfortunately.
If the output of an LLM would found to be derivative of the input, that’d cause lots of problems for (e.g.) Linux, they love claude and have been funneling its output into the kernel for a while now, they’d rather not think about the licensing situation there.
All the more reason to delete it and ban the person uploading them.