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Originally Posted by HarryT
This would be "freedom to steal stuff", would it?
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If you mean freedom to violate copyright, it won't make any difference to that. People who used it for that purpose will just move on to something else instead. As will people who used it for other purposes, of course.
What's more worrying is the knock on effect it will have. I certainly wouldn't want to be involved with any site that allows unmoderated user content, the risks are becoming far too great.
I'm assuming this site has someone check every ebook upload carefully before they are made available to the masses? But even then, the terms under which they are made available can change over time, so what is legal at the time of upload may not be legal months or years later.
Assuming you have all that sorted out, you still have no way of stopping people from dropping in
links to pirate content. Removing them quickly when notified by a copyright holder is obviously not the defence it used to be.