In other words, download them fast?
It is a not-for-profit archive. Old magazines are no longer in print and there is no legal way to obtain them, thus digital archiving is allowed under many copyright laws to preserve access, to prevent the information from being destroyed and lost.
there's still nothing known about it being legit or not, so for now it's legit. innocent until proven guilty and all that.
Yes and no.That means if i write a book and don't have the money to reprint it people are free to scan it and upload it to the net? That would be news to me.