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Originally Posted by ahi
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.
- Ahi
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It has everything to do with what I was discussing.
The question is not whether someone has the right to download public domain books in torrent form if they desire, but whether people who upload public domain books have the obligation to provide those books in torrent form for those who wish to download them as torrents.
The existence of the right does not create the obligation.
Anyone can do as they wish with public domain material: That includes putting them in torrents, uploading them so they can only be downloaded individually, or even printing them out - slathering them with almond butter -and rubbing the printouts all over their bodies.
As Harry has said, someone could go through and download every book on MR and put them in a single torrent; and that would be fine. However, the majority of uploaders on MR have come to the consensus that MR will not provide books for bulk download and that's fine, too.
The purpose of the public domain is to prevent others from limiting what you can do with content - not to enable others to impose their vision of how you should provide content on you. Anyone can put MR public domain content in a torrent: no one can force someone else to do so.