Thread: Can free e-books be pirated?
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Old 01-28-2017, 04:23 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
Distributing the book is not one of the points here.

Even when you BUY 20.000 Leagues under the Sea, or get it for free from a site that made the ebook such as Feedbooks.com, you can't distribute it. Even though the text is out of copyright, you're still not allowed to actually distribute the book made by someone else as far as I know.

I'm talking about if *getting* the book for yourself, trough an old, archived copy of the giveaway page, is piracy or not, after the giveaway has ended and the book becomes unavailable or not free.
Ok. Since you rephrased I shall rephrase.
I would not consider it piracy. That to me would be flat out theft (especially if the author had the book for sale). Also fairly unethical.
So yes, the collection should remain in complete until you can obtain the book legally or buy the paper book and scan it yourself for your personal collection.

Just because one misses a sale does not entitle them to the same price next week.
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