We were not referring to books now out of copyright, but exclusively
to 'Men Among The Ruins', which was published a few years ago.
You are right, some rare books out of print and no longer available in
bookshops have been stolen from bookshelves of libraries, including,
naturally, of public libraries. State employees in a democracy can be
rather zealous when it comes to performing certain tasks. These are
also carried out by other lackeys in second-hand books market across
Western capitals.
--- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "Martin Blaine"
<throw_the_zoom@...> wrote:
>
> The pdf I found is here:
>
> http://members.aol.com/kabrenn/MenAmongtheRuins.pdf
>
> It's not an actual scan of the book, but some kind of text dump. As
> though it's been run through some other type of book-reader software
> first. The text is in quite good shape though, apart from the
> problems I mentioned.
>
> As far as copyrights go, I think most people are proceeding on the
> basis of the "fair use" doctrine. You know, like you have in
> libraries when you photocopy books. I've yet to hear of anybody
> getting in any kind of legal trouble over posting old books online.
> Undoubtedly there are a handful of such cases, but it's not something
> I'm worried about. I think it's more important to make these books
> available. If it's ok for jews to steal books off library shelves,
> then it's ok for me to put Word versions on my internet site. All's
> fair, as they say.
>
> --- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "evola_as_he_is"
> <evola_as_he_is@> wrote:
> >
> > David Astle ('The babylonian Woe' is a must-read), Lothrop Stoddard,
> > Eustace Mullins, Alfred Rosenberg, Francis Parker Yockey, to name a
> > few in your impressing e-library, are authors whose work, having
> > various common denominators, definitely complement one another. The
> > interest they share with Evola in the 'Occult war', their common
> > sensitivity to this most topical phenomenon, their common ability to
> > expose and to study its roots, its effects, and its mechanisms, make
> > it fruitful to read them and to ponder over them simultaneously.
> >
> > A copy of 'Men among The Ruins' could be found online in 2005
> together
> > with Hansen's introduction to it, an introduction over which we will
> > go back in a few days to clarify a point. Since it is a copyrighted
> > work, we first assumed that the publisher gave permission to the
> owner
> > of the site in question. However, the pdf was soon taken off. Then,
> it
> > could be found on www.attan.com, which closed down a few months ago.
> > As much we would like to help you with this, as much, as you have
> > already figured out, you may find yourself in trouble, if you put it
> > online.
> >
> > In the meantime, please go through thompkins_cariou.tripod.com at
> your
> > own pace. It will be updated soon.
>