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Originally Posted by sirbruce
Basically, a lot of times authors put their ebooks online for free. But sometimes, an author changes their mind later on and removes the book. Or they may start charging more for it. But it was out there on the Internet for free "once", and that means it's free forever... doesn't it?
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It depends.
If they say "Here's my book. Feel free to pass it on to anyone you wish" then it's free forever - they have given it to you with permission to copy it to others.
If they say "Here's my book. Please don't redistribute it, but feel free to pass on a link to this page" then it's not free forever - it's free only if downloaded from that page.
The first situation is what the Creative Commons redistributable licences cover.