08-18-2009, 11:20 AM | #61 | |
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That's a bit like amazon and the kindle. If you wait too long, people might not be interested anymore. And 15$ each is NOT a price I would pay for e-books. |
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08-18-2009, 11:29 AM | #62 | |
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And it's different than health-care and "curing all diseases". Yes, the technology is here, possibly, to prevent them all, but out bodies are smarter and are constantly evolving to immunize against these drugs to where they are worthless, or weakened. The goole search indexing service is here already, it just needs to be tweaked, and implemented. All Cures is not here yet, and will require much more research, and we may still never know everything about the human body. I understand where you were trying to come from, but the analogy was like apples to oranges. |
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08-18-2009, 11:32 AM | #63 | |
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Hmm. I'll have to think about how this is similar to or different from eBay. (It may be identical to eBay, and eBay just gets less hassle because they don't allow direct download sales, and proving infringement on a physical medium is harder; someone else would have to buy the "disc of 100 ebooks" and arrange complaints from copyright holders first.) |
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08-18-2009, 01:04 PM | #64 | |
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Is it going to be near perfect? No, but it'll eliminate many of the common-case problems. Trying for perfection is this sort of thing is a very good way of paralysing the system into doing nothing. |
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08-18-2009, 02:23 PM | #65 | |
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It'll be interesting to see if they start deleting these from people's kindles again. |
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That's why you don't start selling stuff when you have no clue who owns the rights to it. Their entire "self publishing" thing is a really bad idea. You're right, it's going to be really difficult to police it, but Amazon is still liable for all of the infringement that is inevitably going to take place.
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I don't think that's true. Somebody who is merely hosting material and qualifies for safe harbor can settle for going after a violation when it's brought to their attention. Amazon is directly benefiting from the financial sale of the material, which disqualifies them for safe harbor. According to the law, they seem to be liable for copyright infringement whether or not they remove content after it is brought to their attention. Selling it at all constitutes a violation of the law on their part.
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08-18-2009, 03:12 PM | #75 | |
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If Amazon just hosted the sale and you payed the individual eBook uploader directly, then I think it would be the same as the eBay scenario. That's not how Amazon does it though. The main difference is "Amazon sells book" vs "Person sells book (on ebay)"... aka who receives payment for the sale. |
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