It is absolutely absolutely packed with unlicensed, copyrighted data.
Books3 is the most notable example - nearly 200,000 pirated ebooks - but a lot of the rest of it is (unlicensed) scraped web data.
The legal questions over whether this is a problem are currently still unresolved. Many people are also bothered by the ethical implications, which is a separate issue from the legal questions.
Books3 is the most notable example - nearly 200,000 pirated ebooks - but a lot of the rest of it is (unlicensed) scraped web data.
The legal questions over whether this is a problem are currently still unresolved. Many people are also bothered by the ethical implications, which is a separate issue from the legal questions.