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Originally Posted by pshrynk
What was the original comment? I can't seem to get a handle on where, exactly your concern lies.
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After much consideration, I think cmbs actually meant to pose some general questions about sites that host free content, presumably to start a discussion of them.
Putting the original questions in a list form, with minor text adjustments to accommodate that format a bit better:
- If a blog [or other website], which is not affiliated with a legitimate bookseller, is hosting and giving away hundreds of free ebooks they did not create (and therefore [presumably] don't own a copyright to), how [can you tell if] the downloads are legal?
- Because they say so?
- Where [do] they get legal rights to distribute the books?
- [Do] you care if [that] download is legal or not?
As I said originally, they're good points to consider -- probably worthy of their own thread, but since we've
never been terribly fussy around here about threads taking new directions on their own, there's no need to start a new one at this point.