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You can't rip something and compress it badly enough to not violate copyright when you sell it. The point of compression is to throw away information about the original in ascending order of importance.

>>ouid+(OP)
>You can't rip something and compress it badly enough to not violate copyright when you sell it.

While I doubt that specific case has been tested in court, arguably you could. If you created glitch art (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_art) via compression artifacts, and your work was sufficiently distinct from the original work, I think you would have a reasonable case for transformative use (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformative_use).

>>eurlei+rp
I'm pretty sure you were downvoted by someone who walks into MoMA and whispers to their partner that a three year old could have drawn that...