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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's a matter that concerns neither you nor me; it's for Americans to decide what the term of copyright in the U.S. should be.
We are straying from the issue, though, which is that it's extremely unwise to indiscriminately download from "archive.org", due to the large amount of pirated material on the site.
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Unfortunately the length of US Copyright is very relevant to the rest of the World, since their politicians seem intent on forcing their own bad decisions on not only their own citizens but also the rest of us. Hence things like their annual "Special 301 list" and their demands in negotiating trade agreements, the latest being the secretive Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations.
I'll respect your view that a discussion of whether Copyright laws are bad laws and whether they are achieving their ostensible aims is stretching the orginal topic too far. Though, of course, if a Publisher is entitled to profit and is deprived of that profit by piracy then whether the law enabling the profit is a bad law is hardly irrelevant to any discussion of the morality or otherwise of the Pirate's actions. In due course we may discuss this in another thread.