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Originally Posted by carld
When you or I pirate a book and put it up on a torrent we know full well what we're doing is illegal beforehand. When someone pirates a work and puts it up on Amazon for sale Amazon has no idea what's going on until after the fact. Indeed Amazon has done nothing wrong whatsoever, they didn't infringe on the copyright, the pirate did. And as soon as this is discovered Amazon moves to correct things to the best our their ability, so no, it's not like you or I doing it at all.
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Let's imagine that you have a lot of guests in your house and you allow them to use your computer. One of them copies a copyrighted file to your computer - right into the shared directory of your FileSharing-Application. Who is responsible for sharing that file one day later when the guests are gone? You or your guest? Both maybe? I would say both are responsible.