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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Then I am legally allowed to upload my ebook collection to torrent websites just so long as I do not do it for commercial purposes? Cool, thanks for the info. 
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Torrents are not illegal
per se, as a gun is not guilty for the murder its owner committed (...people kill people, right?

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You can do whatever you want, as long as the text is PD and you didn't copy the work of another editor. For instance you take the original manuscripts of Mark Twain and retype them into the ePub. You can distribute it freely, on whatever means do you like.