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Originally Posted by micomicon
Wait, lemme be more specific: if the content being scanned is protected by copyright, and the scanning is being done without consent from the copyright holders, then what these volunteers are doing is against the law.
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How about all other points? Do they not matter?
Yes, this scanning might be against the letter of the law, but the right holders don't seem to mind. (And if they do, any book is taken down in hours on request.) One writer was actually pretty angry when he discovered all his books gone from free access (his publisher signed the contract behind his back). As Eric Flint
says so eloquently, the main "enemy" of the writer is not piracy, but
obscurity. Really, I wish everyone arguing for DRM here would read his articles, he addresses about every point raised here.