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Originally Posted by DaleDe
This can be tricky as the law was written for paper and not electronic media. It has been applied to eBooks by stating that reading online is the equivalent of reading a copy your borrowed but download and making a personal copy is a copyright violation because you have a 'permanent' copy of the original. This avoids issues with a cache of the web site and other artifacts of the electronic age of computers. Of course the online copy must have permission to be their in the first place. Libraries are allowed to loan eBooks as they are not permanent. Certainly prosecution has been aimed at uploaders as that is an easier case to prosecute.
Dale
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The point I'm trying to make is that in no other circumstance is the infraction associated with the consumer of the infringed material, always with the distributor. If I as a consumer walk up to a vendor on the street selling Harry Potter books, I have no way to verify that they are licensed and authorized copies produced by the publisher, it could be a third party producing them and selling them illegally. The publisher would be responsible for prosecuting the distributor. What I'm looking for is a federal statute that prohibits knowingly purchasing/receiving goods that are known to be in violation of a copyright or patent. I understand that most people are prosecuted for using P2P networks which send and receive data which makes you liable for the distribution side. What if I was to turn off the sending capability and not allow uploads?