Quote:
Originally Posted by ekbell
However, if the rights holder giving the books away has made an deliberate attempt to remove the book from the web it seems disingenuous to claim that downloading the book though wayback is entirely ethical.
|
In that case, if me downloading the book through the Way Back Machine can be considered piracy (or at least, unethical), the logical followup is that the Way Back Machine itself is committing a copyright violation by keeping the old page and files on record and publicly available.