I can’t help but wonder, shouldn’t this all be possible on Linux without needing to install a hacked hypervisor? At most you would need a kernel patch, but since Denuvo operates through Wine, maybe an entirely userland solution would be possible too.

There’s a lot of blatant LLM bots on Reddit these days so I think it’s a good thing they’re doing this. It’s also only a matter of time before those same bots start landing on Lemmy, even more so than they already have.

And then all this effort was ruled illegal and the collection never saw the light of day. Thanks, copyright mafia.

I think you’re severely underestimating the effort of digitizing it. Usually the way that’s done is to break or saw off the spine and scan every page individually using a scanner, which is obviously a destructive process. Unless it’s an exceedingly rare book it probably is not worth the effort.