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by sillysaurusx 2021 days ago
The authors can file a DMCA. If they don't, there's no issue. If they do, the law will sort it out.

Though it sounds like a flippant response, I've spent a lot of time trying to decide how to feel about this. (I released 194k plaintext books as the books3 dataset.)

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> If they don’t there’s no issue.

This doesn’t seem right, like saying if you shoplift and nobody comes after you, then there’s no issue.