> Yes, but you don't know that they did that. They could've just bought [a license to reproduce the] material in many cases. We do know they didn't, because ma

> Yes, but you don't know that they did that. They could've just bought [a license to reproduce the] material in many cases. We do know they didn't, because many entities they could have bought a license from started suing them for not getting one! > If I pay for an NYT subscription that gives me the entire back catalogue of the NYT, then I'm legally allowed to own it. Almost every single service of that type is merely giving you permission to access their copy for the duration of your subscription. They are never giving you a license to duplicate the whole catalog into a perpetual personal copy.