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Originally Posted by Jellby
Amazon directly charges and profits from people downloading the content. Amazon sells the content. Amazon is not "blind" to the content, it's not as if it's encrypted content they have no way to look into. So Amazon is quite responsible for distributing copyrighted material without permission.
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As does any content distributor, and they all operate the same way. Copyright violations are removed when discovered.
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Originally Posted by Jellby
Sure, the uploader is responsible too, but (in my view) less so, especially if he/she uploads content that is PD where he/she lives and just overlooks that he/she is implicitly giving permission to Amazon for selling it in the US (something which, anyway, he/she has no right to do, so Amazon should not just trust it). And it can be argued that the copyright infringement on Amazon's part was unintentional and good-willing, but it's still there.
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So when someone uploads a copyright video to an online video site they are less responsible for the copyright violation than the site itself? It doesn't matter, so far as I know, that there is money involved in the transaction.