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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, it's the greed of the people who want something for nothing. The fact that something is easy to steal does not morally excuse the act of stealing it. And unfortunately the law as it stands gives virtually no help to people like me who are having their work stolen: it's far too expensive for an ordinary individual to take someone to court even if you can get proof that they've taken your work. We can sometimes do things - eg on one occasion I was able to get a student expelled from a Japanese university who was pirating my software and selling it on eBay - but such successes against the criminals are few and far between.
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This is getting far afield from your original claim that users of archive.org somehow need to investigate the copyright status of material offered there before downloading.
It is not up to me as an average person downloading material for my own use to determine copyright status. It's up to the site offering the material; it's up to someone seeking to reuse the material for profit. Telling me I need to check copyright is an unfair burden, and one I reject.
It is not stealing to download something from archive.org.