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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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Not my job. If you see so much "pirated material" at archive.org, take it up with the site.
When you see, say, a short story collection that notes that each story is public domain or was "reprinted by permission," do you attempt to verify that the publisher indeed has the right to reprint each story, or do you assume that it has? Why not make the same assumption with a legitimate website disseminating material?