A commenter recently suggested on of the online, black-market digital archives as a source of the out-of-print Andre Norton books I had mentioned. I'm not going to publish his comment, nor the name of the archive.
While it's perfectly okay to share works in the public domain -- the Library of Congress has plenty -- and there's a (weak) argument to be made for doing the same with out of print books that are unlikely to be republished, those archives also host copyrighted works and it is, simply, theft to share them without payment to the copyright holder. Just as bad, in my opinion, is that these lawless collections are used to train "AI," stealing from the writers now and using the input to create soulless crap afterward.
I won't support them. I encourage you to not support them, too. The only thing that ought to be fed into "AI" engines is a wooden shoe.
Writing pays starvation wages to most writers. Don't make it worse.
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