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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm afraid that I must respectfully disagree with you. If we disallow the uploading of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright holder, the material doesn't magically become less copyrighted simply because it's password protected  . |
I'm afraid I must respectfully point out that MobileRead has allowed its members to do precisely that for a very, very long time.
On their good days (rare), moderators accompany their warnings about not uploading copyrighted books, with instructions to password-protect the book before uploading, in order to comply with the Forum guidelines.