[HarryT]

Originally Posted by spindlegirl

One of the first books I got from MR was nineteen eighty four

But you presumably live in a place where it's in the public domain, such as Canada. If you'd lived somewhere like the US or the EU, you'd have been breaking the law by downloading it. That's why we (like PG) explicitly tell people that they need to check whether something is in the public domain where they live before they download it.