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Originally Posted by Question Mark
Not sure about the "fake" account situation. That was well before my time here as well. However, when I was initially contemplating backing their Indiegogo campaign, I thought I would look into them a little deeper first... It wasn't pretty.
Came across some posts accusing Good eReader of selling pirated ebooks. If memory serves correct, Michael K. then attempted to weasel his way out of the mess, by saying that an employee there had done something of the sort, but had since been let go and the situation rectified... It's not unlike his update to their Indiegogo campaign after it had been closed.
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That group was initially banned from this forum because they were caught engaging in commercial piracy, and then caught lying about having stopped it. They sold access to pirated ebooks on their site, and after I called them out they claimed to have stopped but instead they actually just spun off the piracy site. We saw through the deception when someone here noticed that both the blog and the pirate site had the same Paypal account.
Then about a year later or so we realized that the MR member that had been promoting and defending that blog was actually a sockpuppet for the blog. It had the same IP address as the previously banned GeR account, but we really only noticed that after their obnoxious behavior brought them to everyone's attention.
edit: here's link to when we discovered the sockpuppetry
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...93#post1694993