Comment its not a hoax, and probably legal (Score 1) 312
by Magorn on soon (#)
I just went to Adobe and installed the reader and sure enough the permissions are eaxctly as stated. Now it should be noted that this is free download, so the restrictions make no sense at all.
Now the nastier question is how can they take a free Gutenberg book of a public domain text and slap all these restrictions on it. Can this possibly be legal?
The answer is unfortunately yes. Even though they are presenting a public domain work, they are legally enititled to enforce copyright on thier intellectual property in this case their "unique" recompilation of the original source text. On the other hand is it moral? well lets just say there are special places in hell for people like this.....
Now the nastier question is how can they take a free Gutenberg book of a public domain text and slap all these restrictions on it. Can this possibly be legal?
The answer is unfortunately yes. Even though they are presenting a public domain work, they are legally enititled to enforce copyright on thier intellectual property in this case their "unique" recompilation of the original source text. On the other hand is it moral? well lets just say there are special places in hell for people like this.....
