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Originally Posted by HarryT
I would have no particular MORAL issue with that. Whether or not it's LEGAL in your country I wouldn't know.
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I don't think anyone knows whether it's legal here, but I'd have a hard time imagining a jury convicting anyone for doing it. Unfortunately, forming a club to exchange books this way would very likely attract a legal challenge, and even if the court decided in favor of the defendants, the costs of the defense would be prohibitive.
Thanks, that helps me to understand your point of view. I am less concerned about filesharing of books on the darknet than you are, because I really do think most books being shared are either out of print or manual scans of content not available as ebooks, and because I think most people who download them are either hoarding without reading or do pay for their content by buying paper books or commercial ebooks, but I see your point that the system makes no attempt to verify this, and is inherently unfair to content creators because of this, and that using such a system is participating in this unfairness.