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Originally Posted by HarryT
You decide. What do you think?
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Nope. It was you who made the argument that carelessness in losing something that subsequently lead to someone else breaking the law is the loser's responsibility.
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But if a rights-holder can show that you have failed to take precautions that a reasonable person would consider to be sensible, a court might well award damages on that basis. Clearly that does NOT include someone breaking into your house and stealing things.
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But, you're the one who said it's the person who loses an item who is responsible for any subsequent illegal copying and distribution. I don't understand how you can have your cake and eat it here. So, you're saying a genuine loss of something is the same as it being stolen in the sense that it's your fault?? I really am baffled. You can take all the precautions you like, but things still get lost. It's hardly a reason to punish someone for the finder's actions. Perhaps the onus should therefore be on the ebook reader manufacturers to ensure their devices are encrypted? Or provide us with locking briefcases with handcuffs to ensure we never lose an ebook. I really do think this argument is ludicrous.
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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.
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I disagree. There hasn't been a copy protection method invented that deters those who wish to copy and distribute. Most of them are circumvented or broken at some point anyway. This has been the argument for as long as I can remember. There is no deterrent. Piracy of games, books, music, movies etc. has been ongoing for many years and every so often a new DRM or protection method is released that will forever prevent or deter piracy. And yet, we're still here discussing said piracy and distribution. The deterrent simply doesn't work.