[tor-talk] Project Gutenberg

[antispam06 at sent.at]

On 31.10.2013 19:38, Lars Noodén wrote:
> On 10/31/2013 09:07 PM, antispam06 at sent.at wrote:
>> AFAIK you don't need permission for creating a mirror. After all,
>> the works are in the Public Domain.
> The original works are in the public domain, but the new, electronic
> editions may not be.  But either way, their issue is with spidering
> and the load it puts on their net.  They might be amenable to a
> hidden mirror, but someone would have to contact them and work that
> out, if there is someone able and willing to try hosting it.

I did the work for you.

Quoting from an epub:

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I don't know how new is that. But it sure is downloaded the day I
discovered the piece of advice given by the project regarding Tor.

The Terms of Use[1] says nothing incompatible with VPN, anonymizers, or
Tor. From the License I quote[2]:

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There are also copyrighted books, but they are uninteresting to the
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The whole thing is written once more in the Permission Howto[3]:

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