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Originally Posted by Dulin's Books
the customers who purchased the book from Amazon are not pirates. they believed they were buying legitimate offerings. Amazon is not a pirate because they were selling what was thought to be legitimate offerings. The publisher of the 1984 version in question is not a pirate because they believed they were legitimately allowed to sell the work in question to those customers. when the mistake was found both amazon AND the publisher stopped offering the work to those customers in that location. the publisher, however innocently the mistake was made, probably would have been fined by which ever agency is responsible for that sort of thing had it been the agency that found the error.
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So you are basing piracy/not-piracy on what the infringing person believes? It's not like it was the first time that they had illegal copies. I can't find the thread where I first heard about this, but they were saying that Amazon was selling at one point the Harry Potter ebooks, and despite this and the 1984 thing, and the fact that considering the size of Amazon there is no cheap and easy was to check all of the submissions making it possible for infringing works to get uploaded, they don't consider it their obligation to check the validity of what they purchase.
What do you call a website that has been known for repeatedly hosting copyright infringing works? What do you call the people that download from that website?