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Nope. If your torrent only contains a single page from each chapter maybe, but wholesale copying is still against the law. You can't read entire books on Google
by res0nat0r 13y ago
Nope. If your torrent only contains a single page from each chapter maybe, but wholesale copying is still against the law. You can't read entire books on Google Books.
- ics 13y agoI would be interested in a "Chapterman's Book Club", where you can grab a torrent of the week's ten recommended chapters from various books and discuss them. There would actually be some novelty in it being legal.
- estebank 13y agoWhat if 100 person independently loaded one page of a 100 page book? The full work is available, but no individual can be blamed with infringement under your interpretation.</devils_advocate>
- res0nat0r 13y agoSpot checking the first Hunger Games book on Google, it only displays the first 50 pages or so.
- macspoofing 13y agoThese kinds of tricks hardly ever pass muster. The law isn't that stupid.
- ben0x539 13y agoSounds like a conspiracy to commit copyright infringement to me!
- Oletros 13y agoThey can't See p. 9: "one of the snippets on each page is "black-listed," meaning it will not be shown; and at least one out of ten entire pages in each book is black-listed... An "attacker" who tries to obtain an entire book by using a physical copy of the book to string together words appearing in successive passages would be able to obtain at best a patchwork of snippets that would be missing at least one snippet from every page and 10% of all pages. (Pl. Resp. ¶ 41). In addition, works with text organized in short "chunks," such as dictionaries, cookbooks, and books ofhaiku, are excluded from snippet view. "