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Originally Posted by Lemurion
I disagree completely. Harry has put hundreds of hours into proofreading and formatting ebooks which he then uploads here so that anyone can download and read them free of charge.
When someone provides something to you for free, you take it how they give it. This is not DRM or silly restrictions like that: this is simply stating that the giver has the right to decide when and how to give you the gift.
If you think having to take a little bit of time to decide "I want this book," rather than downloading a massive torrent that you would only read a tenth of is too much trouble, then that's your prerogative. That doesn't mean the uploaders need to follow your wishes.
As a reader of ebooks - rather than a bulk downloader - I have no problem. I can still download an entire series much faster than I could read the first volume.
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Originally Posted by Superlucky
Backed. Should we really be looking a gift horse in the mouth? Fifteen seconds to download a (free!) product that takes days to consume doesn't seem that outrageous to me.
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None of this has anything to do with what's being discussed.
Unless Harry and the other uploaders suppose they have some rights over the public domain titles they prepared, regardless of whether they worked 10 minutes or 10,000 hours, the resulting eBooks are also in the public domain and anybody can do with them anything they wish... as Harry, in fact, already stated.
Vaguely emotional/moralistic appeals do not change that fact.
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