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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Agreed. But if you went against a powerful entity intent on their version of the book being the real one with the only physical copy of the real original clutched in your hot little hands, what chance do you realistically think it has of surviving the encounter? Or yourself for that matter. 50,000 people with a copy of an original ebook, and various internet archives to back it up, would not be any more or less correct, but possibly more of them would survive.
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Those 50,000 copies could be altered to 50,000 different versions; the backup copies could all easily be falsified so that the truth would be unknowable. But a single physical copy of the book would be absolute evidence of the truth. Whether it could survive is a different question, but if it did, it couldn't be dismissed the way a digital file could.