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Old 03-07-2013, 08:27 AM   #417
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy View Post
I'd also point out (again) that mobileread.com also facilitates copyright violation in the UK. I doubt any disclaimers saying "only download if you are legally entitled in your country" would suffice as a defence, even if the site were allowed to put forward a case.
You are of course perfectly entitled to your opinion, but I suspect you'd struggle to convince anyone that the primary purpose of MR is to facilitate copyright infringement, which is unquestionably the case with these sites that have been blocked. The test that courts have applied for many years in cases of this nature is "does the site" (or whatever) "have any significant non-infringing use". It probably wouldn't be too tough to convince someone that MR does have non-infringing uses, but you'd struggle to show that any of the sites that have been blocked do.
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