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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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First, what are you doing with a file-sharing application that you allow your guests unsupervised access too? That's simply asking for something to happen and a long stretch for an analogy.
Other than being an idiot you've done nothing wrong, but it's still not analogous to Amazon's program. You can, and should, check what's in your file-sharing directory. Amazon cannot physically examine and read every book that they distribute for copyright violations, no book seller of any size can. It would be an enormous cost, not to mention how would you know if some random book is copyrighted? Amazon does not, nor does anyone else, have a database of every copyright work to check submissions against. Plus, if you're checking, you can't just check the title and author, you'd have to check every page of every book against everything ever copyrighted to be certain.
It's simply not feasible. Books sellers do however address copyright violations to the best of their ability when it's brought to their attention, which is what Amazon did.