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Many books are indeed available for free download (including non-CS books), but most of the ones linked in this thread aren't.

Examples of working links: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4302-5927-5 http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4302-6131-5 http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-0100-8



Those links are to "Open Access" books and have always, I believe, been free (as in beer).

The content identified by the original post were not open access; they were paid access (typically quite expensive) and published in 2004 or before.

I hope the zero cost downloads was not a glitch but a policy, and that Springer will make those older texts freely available again.


I hope nobody gets fired for this. Probably a lots of these leaked books will be up on torrent sites.


* Probably a lots of these leaked books will be up on torrent sites.*

If I had to guess, I'd say a pretty good chunk of them already were on torrent sites or LibGen.


That makes me wonder if after hitting a certain threshold in popularity they convert it from free to paid content.




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