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Project Gutenberg Publishes 10,000th Free eBook
AndrewRUK writes "Earlier today, Project Gutenberg's founder, Micheal Hart, announced that the project has passed the milestone of 10,000 free eBooks available, with the publication of the Magna Carta.Project Gutenberg was founded in 1971, with the aim of "[making] information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search." In the 32 years since the project started, over 10,000 books, ranging from the Bible to school textbooks, and from the complete works of Shakespeare to the USA's declaration of independence, have been made freely available to the public by Project Gutenberg."
That's almost half the Hardy Boys series!
That's odd. What with all the extensions on copyright expirations, I didn't realize that the Bible was in the public domain.
Libertarians somehow believe that private businesses should be stronger than governments but weaker than individuals.
Plus, book burnings. Not as much fun with digital books. `rm -rf /usr/local/share/banned_books` just doesn't have that bonfire drama does it?
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You mean, the U.S. Constitution has been freely available on the Internet all this time, and still Ashcroft hasn't bothered to read it?
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
Yeah, it's copyrighted. So if I erase the files from my harddrive after I read them, wouldn't this be equal to borrowing them from library?
No. The copyright holder didn't recieve any compensation from you downloading the electronic transcription of their work. A library book is paid for once at the very least when it is obtained by the library.
Break out the eye patch buddy.. YARR!