True legality of this (Score 1)

This post is a great knee jerk reaction to Brill posting the theses online. However, I've read about this issue before, and I'm quite sure that most universities require you to partially sign away publication rights to your thesis. Under current law, what Brill is doing is perfectly legal, so comparisons to "burning hundreds of CDs" are misguided. Whether or not this is an ethical practice on the part of Brill is something else entirely, and I agree that it must be stopped at once.