Free Books but dubious legality

[Jaqhama]

Now I've come across some people with moxie before, but talk about snubbing your nose at convention and copyright and the law concerning author's ownership.

The site below has many, many great novels free to download, and being registered in Panama apparently means the guy is untouchable.

I post the link here only out of awed interest.

http://www.truly-free.org/

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[erazmus]

Interesting. I see a couple by friends of mine. Hmmn.
What a scumbag.

Mike

Michael D. Turner
'Psyched Up' in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
www.baen.com
'Dutchman Rescue'in Continuum SF #6
www.continuumsciencefiction.com/orders.htm

'An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern' in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises:

www.fantasistent.com/books/anthologies/BASH.php
'Pink Plastic Flamingos''What Smitty Saw' 'Elvis's Space Alien Lovechild' 'Two Ravens''Rejection' (forthcoming) in Big Pulp
www.bigpulp.com/index.html
'Stains''Two ravens''Job Security' 'Yeti Yet' 'Characters in Flight'(forthcoming)in Tales of the Talisman 3-1 www.zianet.com/hadrosaur/index.html
'Morning Coffee''Happy Landings''Teller of Tales''Silver Shells''I'm tired of Bombs, and my dog is dead' 'One Dark Night'in Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com
'The Jewel Below' 'Mo the Mountain' in Flashing Swords
flashingswords.sfreader.com
Read 'Silver Shells' In The Best of Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/features/the-best-of-every-day-fiction-2008/

[ScrewMoonshine]

Well, probably a lot of the site's visitors will effectively use it as a way to sample books, going on to actually purchase a copy of a book if they find they like it.

Which does not in any way diminish the blatant violation of other's people property involved in the site or the fact that the guy doing this is a complete scumbag, mind you. I'm just pointing out a little silver lining to the cloud.

Robert Orme

Out now:
'More Than One Way to Protect' in Lords of Justice (www.cyberwizardproductions.com/altered/loj.html)
'On the Tree Top' in Ultraverse vol.3 #5 (www.ultraverse.us)
'Replacing Someone' in Aoife's Kiss #26, September 2008 (http://samsdotpublishing.com/aoife/main.htm)

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[lin]

Well... things get fuzzy about books once they're out the door. And WAY fuzzy now that they are electronic files.

This guy isn't making any money off this, so how scummy is his bag?

And how does he compare to a guy with a store that sells used paperback books for cents on the dollar without paying the author any of it? And why?

Or, how about I go into hostels and hotels all over my area and here are these collections of books in English (and other languages that aren't "supported" by Mexican bookstores) Take one leave one is the policy. Even bars and restaurants to it.

People donate thousands of books to schools here.

So..... I dunno?



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[Jaqhama]

Hmm...Lin has a point regarding used bookstores and other avenues of getting hold of books without the publisher or the author making any money from them.

Good God Lin do you realise you may just have announced the death knoll of used bookshops?

Wait until the lawyers get a hold of this one.

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