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Originally Posted by HarryT
If you wish to pirate books, that is your personal decision, but do not use MobileRead's forums to tell the world that you've done so. This book is in the public domain in the US only. Downloading it from outside the US is piracy. We don't want to know that you pirate books. Please don't force us to take action by telling us.
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Originally Posted by Little.Egret
But if it is in copyright in UK and I buy it from Amazon.co.uk then I am likely getting it illegally if the author's estate hasn't given permission.
And you are saying that I mustn't mention this ?
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If it's on Amazon, Kobo et all then surely we would have to assume that the publisher has the rights, not that it's pirated.
If it is pirated then surely that is up to the rights holder/Amazon to sort out.
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
No, I and HarryT were both saying if you told the computer you were in a public domain country to get it FREE don't mention that.
If you paid for it then you got it legally.
Or in other words, if you did something illegal to obtain the book, keep quiet about it.
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I thought only gweeks gave the gutenberg link and explained the copyright status at the same time, nothing illegal there either.