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Originally Posted by ahi
Sorry, Ralph... but you seem to suggest that people should be granted de facto legal rights by people that the law does not grant them at all... simply because they want it (or perhaps because they did some unknown amount of work relating to it?).
I don't think that's right or moral. The way I have no problem with writers who constantly cry and whine about piracy never writing another book again, I much prefer that the people who upload PD books understand and respect the concept of the Public Domain. I would certainly not actively encourage somebody's delusions that they own rights to public domain material. (I'm not talking about anyone in specific, to be clear.)
- Ahi
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To make this short and clear: MR, as a community and especially the uploaders, will not provide bulk downloads of the book uploads. As you have stated, these books are in PD (save for a few exceptions). It is up to you to package those books and put them in torrents if you think that should be done.
Besides, there are practical problems with these bulk downloads as some books are CC, others are only in PD in specific countries and not in others, so these torrents could become illegal very quickly!