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Originally Posted by Dutchbook
Amazon/Google/Kobo would just need to go after a couple of illegal uploaders to make an example of them, and give it much attention in the media, to at least make people afraid of the consequences of digital theft.
So far, that has not been the case
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I think those disastrous RIAA lawsuits from the early 2000's have made companies gun-shy when it comes to suing individual up/downloaders. Going after the pirates sounds good. But when the public sees a grandmother or twelve year old being sued by a faceless corporation, support switches.
I believe they now go after file sharing sites while holding out the threat that individuals *could* be sued. When Megaupload was seized, the MPAA (among others) threatened to sue individual users, but to the best of my knowledge it never happened.