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Then you aren't being terribly intelligent about finding said books then. There's this thing called Interlibrary loan. That free technique can get you a book f
by kefka 13y ago
Then you aren't being terribly intelligent about finding said books then.
There's this thing called Interlibrary loan. That free technique can get you a book for free for a period of time... enough for -you- to scan it and do as you see fit.
Of course, if it ends up pirate bay, oh well. Its not like some rights holder is going to starve because an out of print book is pirated.
- polymatter 13y agoIf you get caught and don't accept the reasonable plea bargain though, you may spend a decade or two in jail. You should factor that in your risk assessment somewhere.
- kefka 13y agoThat should be bloody simple for anyone here to avoid. 1. Run TOR 2. Use a proxy server in opposition to the country you are in. 3. Use public wifi 4. Use a dead-drop 5. Use Mega or MediaFire 6. Find random anonymous FTP 7. Overseas VPS If you get caught, you were being stupid. Anybody here worth their salt would know about most of these methods above, along with how to implement them.
- polymatter 13y agoAll good points. But this is now a significant barrier to just casually checking out a book. The OP was fretting about ordering the book on Amazon because they "can't start reading it for a few days". Suggesting he get the book via interlibrary loan and then OCR'ing it themself would surely take longer than Amazon delivering it. And then I still maintain that distributing it illegally over Pirate Bay is risky. Yes, you can take a few good security steps. But all they'd need is the public library assistant to notice you are uploading to Pirate Bay or something. Yes you can take steps, but this is already way beyond a casual look through the book.