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Originally Posted by bizzybody
The Cryoburn CD with most of Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series was there but she requested it be removed. All the books and short stories Baen has for free are at the request of the authors or authors' estates.
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You can find the torrent for downloading the Cryoburn CD here:
https://baen.dominikbodi.de/
Disclaimer (because I just know someone is going to see this, somehow, someday, and go "torrent" == "illegal") -- yes, this is legal. All the Baen CDs listed there were released by Baen with permission to share freely, for free. Just like all the Baen CDs:
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What’s the catch? This disk and its contents may be copied and shared, but NOT sold. All commercial rights are reserved. That’s it.
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And Bujold didn't realize the impact of that it seems, and threw a tantrum (with accusations of pirating)... but there is still no legal ground for withdrawing the right to share and redistribute that CD.
Some people were nice and stopped hosting it anyway.
Some people decided to leave it up anyway, which is a right granted that cannot be retracted. Torrents make nice crowdsourced distribution methods.
Oh, and an amusing conversation about it, here on MR:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=188591