Here's a screenshot of one of the books (courtesy of technologyreview.com):
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
bunch of bored haxx0rs who think it's clever to generate automated and scraped text. (They openly admit what they're doing, so it's unlikely they are just out for a quick buck.)
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That was also my impression.
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
2) Copyright law would not protect someone who scraped website comments for a book.
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Of course not, but what about the Youtube commentators? It's hard to imagine that someone would actually buy a book with a title like "Alot was been hard," but wouldn't the original commentators theoretically be entitled to royalties if someone actually bought one of these masterpieces?