First of all, I would like to apologize for my answer,
which I made due to a translation error - I answered a supposed question about whether I loaded copyrighted books and didn't think about the prosecutorial investigation.
Yes, I was investigated because a book I bought with soft DRM was found on the internet.
The investigation was dropped,
- because no DRM removal software was found on any of my devices.
- and I reported the loss or theft of a reader on which I had
such books to the police - for exactly this reason
By the way, I have been a DRM fan since that experience.
But I have already written all this earlier.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
But yet you thanked @JSWolf for pointing it out. And as you hadn't bother to mention that you were only talking about German literature, how was I supposed to know?
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As someone from Austria who has written frequently about problems with English (using Google Translate), I'm hardly going to bother looking for English-language literature.
Thinking about it for a moment would have been enough.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
But yet you thanked @JSWolf for pointing it out
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Oh no, I thanked for "here".
Edit: I have now looked at it and can only say: very modest. I can find more interesting things for me in our lending libraries.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
Or are all these books you are getting from the pirate sites actually sourced from PG? Or de version by someone who has done the extract and build.
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What is PG?
Edit: is PG Proje(c|k)t Gutenberg? If Yes, then I can give you the answer:
"Proje
ct Gutenberg" is of no interest to someone who is not looking for English books - so only then will they look there.
Many of these books are from "Proje
kt Gutenberg
- de" which can only be read online - downloaded and converted to epub and Kindle versions.
Further, I estimate that more of them came from users who have scanned their books, put them in text and mostly in epub/azw form so that they can be read in both systems without problems.