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Originally Posted by BWinmill
The author's intent is also important.
The difficulty comes when a site hasn't been granted permission. And that problem exists whether they are profiting enormously from it, just covering costs, or not generating any revenues whatsoever (directly or indirectly).
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Is the author's intent important?
What exactly constitutes a site? mobileread's servers?
What about thumbnail page images fetched from a google search cached through mobileread alongside ads which benefit google?
What is permission????
For most of human history texts were freely shared...
Ideas come and go... Some are put into practice for awhile, found to be useless,stupid,harmful and then discarded.
If you read a life altering text, do you not want to share that text with as many people as possible so that they might have the same experience as you? And do you not think that any block to this kind of sharing is severely detrimental to the advancement of our species culture...