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Originally Posted by anamardoll
See Elfwreck's point about companies who download their own stuff -- or rather, things LABELED as their own stuff, which is not the same -- in order to track piracy habits of their stuff.
If one downloads what one THINKS is one's own stuff to track but accidentally gets something else, that would be very tricky. Fair use? Well... maybe. Hard to say, actually.
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This actually opens up a very interesting area of litigation. Company A downloads a torrent of hundreds of books to check for piracy (and as part of that activity is uploading), and the torrent also contains books from Company B...a bit of piracy that Company B detects because
they're checking for piracy (and thereby downloading/uploading Company A content).
Now Companies A and B have grounds to sue each other for copyright infringement. Rather than going after individuals with nothing, they each have a deep-pocketed litigant to go after!
Meta-piracy: piracy in the cause of fighting piracy.