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Originally Posted by netseeker
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.
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The law as I know it would disagree. The person who commits the act of illegally sharing a file is solely responsible for doing so.
If the book was illegally published as well, the illegal publisher is liable only for the act of illegal publishing (producing the book for sale or distribution without rights).