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Re:Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are ... by jjeaff on Monday July 04, 2022 @02:53AM (#31974211)
I assume they are referring to the fact that books older than about 70 years are in the public domain. The rest are protected by copyright and not free.
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Re:Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are ... by ls15 on Monday July 04, 2022 @03:00AM (#31974263)
I think so too, but I am referring to this statement:

> The overwhelming majority of our knowledge is in the public domain

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Re:Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are ... by popcube on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @10:36PM (#31996107)
if we talk about biology, absolutely not, but most of high school students won't finish basic physics, so this make sense in some region
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