> But at the same time I know the courts side with publishers pretty much every time and copyright law being such as it is they're totally screwed.
I mean... they did just scan a load of in-copyright books and then let anyone download them with no restrictions. What did they think was going to happen?
I think you have to be particularly extreme and naive to think that would have been ok, legally or morally.
Sharing information is always morally OK. It's copyright itself that is a severe infringement to our right of free speech without a good enough reason to justify that.
I mean... they did just scan a load of in-copyright books and then let anyone download them with no restrictions. What did they think was going to happen?
I think you have to be particularly extreme and naive to think that would have been ok, legally or morally.