The confusion seems to be on your part, because that's not the argument being made here. The argument is that the 400k books being shared here are themselves c

The confusion seems to be on your part, because that's not the argument being made here. The argument is that the 400k books being shared here are themselves copyrighted works that the poster probably does not have the right to be distributing, and that is not very nice of them. "It's just a dataset, bro!" being used to bulldoze people's rights to their own work might have negative consequences.