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I am not sure you have to use torrent to pirate books. Pdfdrive is likely mich more effective than torrents. Torrents are best for large assets or those that are highly policed by copyright authorities but for smaller things torrents have little benefits.



They have an email from a meta employee seeking clarification because it "felt wrong" to torrent the books.


I think if you're downloading hundreds of thousands to millions of books you'll be dealing with some pretty large archives.

edit: books3.tar.gz alone is 37GB and claimed to have 197,000 titles in plain text.


A publisher's entire library of books is a large asset.




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