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Originally Posted by pwalker8
In general, I tend to differentiate between a true pirate site (i.e. someone trying to profit from someone else's copyrighted material) and people who scanned in copies of their favorite books and shared them with other fans. Way back before ebook stores were common, there was quite the cooperative effort to scan and proof books. You had multiple iterations of people proofing and fixing errors in some of the more popular books, which lead to some pretty well proofed books. It was very much a labor of love for some involved, much like the PD efforts we see here and on PG.
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This may be true but I think it was the exception rather than the rule. When I first started reading ebooks, I looked at a few pirated ebooks, and most of them seemed to be OCRd with little or no proofreading and not worth keeping. I haven't looked at any pirated ebooks in years, but my impression was that most of the pirates were no longer scanning print books, just removing the DRM from publishers' ebooks.