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Yes. If not available (or on sale), the Way Back Machine to get it (for free) is piracy. | 27 | 45.76% | |
No. The Way Back Machine archives official sites, so you're getting it from the (old) official site. | 19 | 32.20% | |
No opinion / Don't care. | 13 | 22.03% | |
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02-01-2017, 02:46 AM | #61 |
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Copyright means "the right to copy"
Regardless of whether a work was ever made available for free, regardless of whether or not it is commercially available right now, if it is under copyright then only the copyright owner (normally the author) has the right to copy it (or to license a publisher to do so).
As frustrating as it is, unless a book is actually in the public domain and its copyright term has expired, you are breaching copyright if you make a copy without the authorisation of the copyright holder, me hardy. |
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02-01-2017, 03:28 AM | #63 |
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In discussing copyright it's too easy to confuse what ought to be with what is.
We'd all like it if we could do everything with an ebook exactly as we can with a printed book. But they're obviously different. Those differences bear directly on how you can use it and, importantly, whether or not you can make copies or share it. Copyright and DRM are there to protect the rights of creators. Sometimes this results in silliness, but that is true of most legal arrangements. They're artificial, but they're there for a worthy reason. |
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Please don't conflate copyright and DRM. DRM is there to make money for DRM providers, nothing else.
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02-01-2017, 03:59 PM | #67 |
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My books are free (Creative Commons) and they can certainly be "pirated." In fact, I wish they would be.-)
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Except for some details of legal classification and calculating damages in court, money has nothing to do with copyright law. For the purposes of what is an infringement, the rules don't change a whit if the price is $0.00 or $1,000,000.00
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My opinion is that the term piracy is overused, overbroadly, and the reports of it damaging Big Media are grossly exaggerated by Big Media.
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It depends on if the courts believe that the Way Back Machine is actually time travel.
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02-02-2017, 11:48 AM | #73 |
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Ah, but then you would have the "Ban Time Travel Because Piracy" thing going on. And there is no way no how that I am giving up my key to the Tardis, so there!
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