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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
There are those people who feel that downloading a book for free is bad but if you pay someone for it even if they didn't have the right to distribute it it's OK. There was a discussion when I initially joined MR about ebook sites and how do you know that they are legitimate. One point was that even Amazon had trouble with books that weren't uploaded by the copyright holder or a person representing them. But some consumers don't actually care about that. They aren't going to go through the trouble of verifying that the books sold on Amazon are sold legally because it just doesn't matter.
The same could be said about [deleted] and [deleted] (whatever sites those were). People have seen discounted books and ebooks are expected to be cheaper than pbooks anyway. So if the prices are lower than in other stores they just might not look that deep.
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So do you think each individual has an active duty to verify that a book sale is legal? Sorry, but that's ridiculous.
It's not that consumers "don't actually care" or that it "doesn't matter" to them--it's that it is an absurdly onerous burden.