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Originally Posted by leaston
Lets say I lose a penknife (pick anything that could be used as a weapon) that is then used to hurt someone. Am I responsible for that 'outcome' of my 'carelessness'?  |
You decide. What do you think?
This is all a "straw man" argument, though. We all know that the overwhelming majority - probably so close to 100% that the difference isn't worth noticing - of pirated books are uploaded deliberately and knowingly. Posing hypothetical "oh but what if I lose my reader!" counter-arguments is just a poor attempt to distract from the real point, which is that it would unquestionably act as a very large deterrent to book uploaders if they knew that their uploads could be traced back to them.