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Originally Posted by Catlady
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.
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I'm sorry, but I disagree with you. "archive.org" contains a great deal of pirated material. If you download a pirated book or other item, you
are stealing from the copyright holder. It is your responsibility to check, just as you need to check before you download something from MR. In MR's case, not because it's pirated, but because a lot of what's in the MR library is not in the public domain in the US. The download pages at MR specifically tell you this.