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Originally Posted by doreenjoy
On what grounds would Amazon prosecute illegal uploaders?
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In the UK, the appropriate charge would be, I believe, "Attempting to obtain money by deception", which is a serious criminal offence. I imagine that the US has a broadly equivalent offence? However, that assumes a deliberate attempt to deceive. It appears that this specific case may have been an inadvertant error, with a publisher uploading a book to Mobi in an area where the book is in the public domain, and not realising that Mobi redistributes it to the US, where it is not.
Obviously Amazon could not themselves prosecute anyone, but they should (IMHO) report them to the police in cases where it seems that the intent is to defraud.