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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Was Scribd aware that a lot of material it hosted was pirated, and did nothing about it because the material made the site more attractive?
If so, I'm outraged. But I don't know that's the case, and neither do you.
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I don't know about the site in question, but there are many sites which certainly take a rather "relaxed" attitude to piracy.
Eg, until recently, eBay would only pull an auction if the actual copyright holder whose rights were being infringed personally asked them to; the result was that eBay was home to innumerable software and music pirates.
Now - thankfully - they've changed their policies and will pull auctions if anyone complains that they violate copyright.
If the site in question took the former of these approaches rather than the latter (and I don't know whether or not it did), it would indeed deserve criticism for that approach.