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Originally Posted by HansTWN
I am no lawyer (I suspect neither are you). But as far as I know, if someone does not have legal rights to transfer something to you, anything, then you cannot take legal ownership.
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Amazon does have ownership of the files that they are selling, so they can transfer that ownership via a sales transaction. What Amazon does not have is authorization from the copyright holder for distribution. Distribution rights, and ownership rights of the product itself, are separate things. Copyright infringement is a dispute that occurs between Amazon and the copyright holder over who is authorized to distribute material. It is not a dispute over ownership of the material.