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Originally Posted by pwalker8
As with most things, these things aren't as cut and dried as people claim, nor are such situations unique to the publishing world. Heck, book publishers ended up losing a lot of money when various book stores went belly up without paying off their stock of books. Bankruptcy is a nasty business for all the parties concerned. If I were to sell 1000 computers to a company that then goes bankrupt without paying me, then I can't just take back the computers. It all goes before the judge.
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That's happened to me, too. A store bought a big order of stock of my software, and then went bust before they'd paid me for it. A very expensive episode. I got nothing whatsoever back, because it turned out that the store's owner had gambled away all the company's money.