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Originally Posted by Alisa
There's a big difference between Jammie Thomas and the original example. I understood you as talking about a person getting content thinking they had the right to distribute it and then finding out later they didn't. Even if Ms. Thomas had purchased authorized copies of the songs she uploaded, she did not purchase the right to distribute them. When Amazon accepted the self-published work, it was with the submitter attesting they had the right to distribute it and was authorizing Amazon to distribute it for them. No such rights were given to Ms. Thomas if she purchased a CD or tracks from an authorized store.
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I was talking about re-sharing content that was downloaded from the P2P network, not uploading content ripped from a CD.