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Old 07-18-2009, 12:42 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Practically speaking, Jon, how could they do that? It's one thing to check whether or not a book is in the public domain, but if you find that it isn't, how are Amazon going to check whether or not the publisher has a legitimate right to distribute it? All they can realistically do is to get the uploader to declare that they have that right, and that is precisely what they currently do.
But that is exactly what torrent sites do also. And when people complaining they remove the torrent. But I seem to remember you saying that it is wrong for a torrent site to behave as Amazon.
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