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Originally Posted by Robotech_Master
Perhaps, but it's not legal everywhere they're making it available to. As we just saw.
Jurisprudence around Internet downloads doesn't work based on where it's being made available from. If it did, then eReader and Fictionwise wouldn't have had to stop selling ebooks outside the US back in 2009, because their servers were in the US where it was legal for them to sell those ebooks. But they did. For purchased products, the point of sale is considered to be the computer on which the purchase is made. By the same token, if a product is downloaded for free, the location where the download is considered to have happened is the location of the computer that made the download, not the server where it was downloaded from.
That's the way the Internet has worked for at least 9 years now. That's the way the courts are going to see it. You can say it shouldn't work that way until you're blue in the face, but good luck making that stick in the real world. |
You keep ignoring that that was because of CONTRACTS with the publishers and had nothing to do with what the international copyright treaties would require. The PUBLISHERS required the store fronts to make that change. The PUBLISHERS that had CONTRACTS with the store fronts.