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Originally Posted by Quoth
Even the main free downloads has increasing amounts of copyright content.
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Purely anecdotally speaking, I don't think this is accurate. It seems to me that many (most?) books at IA under copyright are no longer downloadable and have been shifted to "read online only" status. Similarly, books that were formerly available as read online are now inaccessible.
And while I'm at it I'll engage in some whataboutism as well, in that I don't think Amazon, as just one example, polices its listings for pirated listings. At all. They only respond to complaints from rights holders even in cases of egregious violations.
At least IA wasn't selling the books and did provide a desirable service; it could be the
only source of out-of-print copyrighted books. So I get the temptation. And since their downloads were lousy quality, who wouldn't buy the ebook if they could?
I do take your point, but perhaps this whole kerfuffle will nudge along access to the inaccessible.