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Is is illegal to post your scanned version of the first year law books for the general public to use as an electronic back-up of the ones they bought?

umm...

this is pretty not legal. i sincerely hope nothing can trace your handle to your actual identity.

Yeah, I appreciate the offer but I'm not touching that with a ten foot pole.

fl0w wrote:umm...

this is pretty not legal. i sincerely hope nothing can trace your handle to your actual identity.

pretty good idea though.

echoi wrote:

fl0w wrote:umm...

this is pretty not legal. i sincerely hope nothing can trace your handle to your actual identity.

pretty good idea though.

in all fairness i'm not sure that scanning them is illegal as long is they are only maintained as personal copies (Fair Use isn't always clear). but i do know that posting links for the public to download is not legal (or, rather, could be construed as impeding the ability of the copyright owner to sell their work).

Why not put these in bittorrent?

tiburon wrote:Is is illegal to post your scanned version of the first year law books for the general public to use as an electronic back-up of the ones they bought?

Yeah, right. The intent is obviously to give the book out for free to others. Unless the OP is extremely naive.

hsprophet wrote:

tiburon wrote:Is is illegal to post your scanned version of the first year law books for the general public to use as an electronic back-up of the ones they bought?

Yeah, right. The intent is obviously to give the book out for free to others. Unless the OP is extremely naive.

Regardless of your INTENT the effect is that it can impair the ability of the owner to sell new copies. sorry charlie.