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Originally Posted by DaleDe
How could they possibly know if the eBook on your machine purchased elsewhere could be unauthorized? There is no method. This should not be a concern.
Dale
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For that matter, how can they know if a book purchased from Amazon is unauthorized? If an individual person got permission from, say, Rowling to have digital versions of her books (like, one of her editors, or publisher--or her children), and they acquired one through Amazon's short-lived unauthorized sale--that person's copy is authorized even if the sale wasn't.
That's part of why copyright has to be prosecuted individually; rights-holders can grant individual permissions for copies without affecting their right to prevent widescale distribution.
However, I'll grant that's a rare case.
Since Amazon and the entire copyright-conscious world knows that Rowling doesn't allow e-editions of her books, what prevents them from removing those ebooks from anyone's Kindles? (Other than the fact that an ebook titled "Rowling_Harry_Potter_and_the_Sorcerers_Stone. txt" doesn't have to include any Potter text whatsoever. They could, presumably, open the file to look at it, confirm it's a copy of HPatSS, and decide to take action.)
How long before Kindle owners get DMCA takedown notices for unauthorized content? How long before publishers & authors demand that Amazon turn over lists of contents to them, the way they demand that ISP's comply with DMCA takedown notices?