Greg Weeks wrote:
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
We are talking about files that are sitting in some queue on a DP server. The DP server is not publicly accessible: It asks for a password. Taking a file out of a password-protected site and making it public without the site owner's permission is illegal. It is irrelevant if the file contains PD material or not.
I suspect that wouldn't fly in the US. There's no restriction on getting an account, so it's likely there was no trespass. Maybe a TOS violation, but I don't think there's anything preventing this in the DP TOS, and I don't think there should be in general. Even if it does sometimes irritate me.
That would very well fly. I don't believe the DP TOS allow you to take a file out and publish it on your own. And if they allow that, I don't understand all the fuss they are making against a PG preprint distribution. Oh, and all those signs that say you can't take any pictures in US. museums, don't they fly? -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org