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Originally Posted by JSWolf
And do you know how easy it is to go and register using a name that's not already in use? TRIVIAL! So really, that's no proof of it being legal. In fact if it was legal, I would thing that Smahswords would be dancing for joy and advertising this all over the place. as it would be a big deal.
Can you find any place that says it's legal outside of this one entry on Smashwords? I bet not because its not legal.
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I can't argue with you that it is easy to claim you are someone you aren't on the net, but I would think it might be harder to do some things. Like explain why the funds earned are in someone else's name. I mean if I claimed to be Bram Stoker (assuming he were alive) and yet funds earned for Dracula etc. were to go into another bank account under another name I'd think it would raise a few eyebrows. And Mrs. Stewart was still alive in 2011 so how can anyone be sure that she didn't open the smashwords account herself? Alas we can't ask her personally as she died back in May.