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Originally Posted by Jim Chapman
This does seem like wise advice. But if I do this, I am sure to be criticised by various of my users who liked having the link there. So that I can give them a constructive answer, can you point me at any internet-available material that demonstrates flibusta's hosting of stolen material?
Thanks,
Jim
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The flibusta site should provide you all the info you need for that. Without linking to them, if you click on the "Popular Books" link (second link under the search box, if you're not running a translation or can read russian) the #1 book is George R. R. Martin's
A Game of Thrones. If you click through to that, you'll find links to download and read online. Given that the book retails for $9 in the Kindle store, I'm pretty sure they don't have the legal right to give it away for free.
I'm a huge fan of Freda and you've got to do what you think is right, but IMHO I wouldn't want this as a default source (I'm actually surprised you made it through WP/W8 certification at all with that source; there must not be russian-reading certification people on the team). Stick with quality default sources like Feedbooks and Gutenberg (basically, all of your other default sources except flibusta), and keep on providing OPDS access. If users want to use flibusta, the OPDS link is very prominent on their home page and they can easily add it as their own OPDS source. That gets you off the hook while still maintaining the functionality your various users desire.
I'd say in this case LitRes.ru probably does have the right to ask you to remove flibusta as a default source, but there's no way they have the right to ask you to remove OPDS support or add a blacklist.