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Originally Posted by silasgreenback
"Fictionwise.com offers a reward for information leading to the conviction of copyright violators of Fictionwise ebooks."
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Has there ever been a conviction for ebook filesharing? I only know of a handful convictions for music filesharing, and none for ebooks.
I suspect that this is mostly because there's no literary equivalent of the RIAA; no mega-organization that can prosecute on behalf of hundreds of authors. The penalty for violating a single author's copyright wouldn't be worth chasing down. (And DC & Marvel comics don't have legit digital versions of old comics, so they'd be hard-pressed to prove the financial value/damages of comic torrenting.)