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Old 03-01-2010, 01:06 PM   #145
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Originally Posted by dmaul1114 View Post
I mean if some company prints copies of a book they think is public domain or whatever and sells them in stores, etc. they are the one's that are going to get hit with penalties, not the customers who had no way to know they were buying bootlegged books etc.
How is a downloader supposed to know whether the host they are getting content from is authorized? Isn't this the exact same situation?

Pick a link at random from google and download the data to your hard drive. Did you just commit a criminal act? How would you even know?
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