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Originally Posted by taustin
No. No one said that. It was not, in fact, legally purchased. That it was illegally purchases was a mistake, not intentional infringement, but it was not legally purchased.
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It was legally purchased from a store that didn't have the right to be selling it. The customers committed no crime in buying those books. When you go into a bookstore, do you confirm that the publisher legally has the right to publish that book, that the rights haven't reverted to the author? Do you check whether the author wrote that book or plagiarized large sections of it it? Do you check whether it was bought from a distributor in this region, or whether the bookstore illegally contract with a cheaper overseas distributor for this shipment?
When you buy books from a store, online or off, the burden of checking whether they're legal to sell is on the store, not the customer.
If the copyright owners objected, the proper recourse was to sue Amazon, and get a court ruling demanding the return of those ebooks. *THEN* they'd've had the right to grab them from people's Kindles. Amazon wasn't acting under a court ruling; they stole people's books as an appeasement offering to the copyright holders--"here, we'll take them back and then you won't sue us, okay?"
If a car dealership sells 2,000 cars with stolen tires, they don't have the right to break into people's garages and take back the tires in order to avoid a lawsuit from Michelin. Saying, "oops, we installed the wrong tires; we shouldn't have sold it to you that way" would not be so lightly accepted by customers.
Which is why Amazon got sued and lost a class-action suit by the customers.