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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm not so sure about that. Are eBay responsible for the things that people sell on their site? Realistically, I suspect that all Amazon can do is make people agree to a declaration that they have a legal right to sell the books they upload, and to promptly react to reports of copyright violations - and that's exactly what they do.
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What you call "realistic" I would label a "rational business decision."
Unfortunately for Amazon, in a copyright lawsuit, that rational decision might be seen as a "willful" decision to risk violating any copyright where the uploader lies about owning the copyright.
I think that Amazon has done the math, and figures that it costs less in the long run to take a hit now & then when a copyright violation occurs, as compared to doing a complete checkup on each upload.