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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Are they distributing (an active act), or are they making available for download (a passive one)? The act of distributing (downloading) is triggered solely by a deliberate act of the end user, unlike P2P where background transfers can happen automatically.
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That's the key point, of course. It's completely impractical to suggest that every site that offers books downloads should have a knowledge of the copyright status of every book in the world, in every country in the world. Really, all anyone can practically do is to say "don't download this book if it's protected by copyright in your country", and leave it to the honestly of the downloader.