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Old 06-14-2010, 01:15 PM   #8
Worldwalker
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Originally Posted by JanG View Post
I was just wondering why they allow such blatant flouting of copyright.
Since they banned someone for violating your copyright, and deleted the book, it seems to me that they don't allow it.

Why does MobileRead allow spam, especially from those video editing guys? True, the spam is deleted as soon as it's reported, and the spammer is immediately banned, but that's the same as allowing it, right?

Basically, there's no way that a site like Scribd could possibly research the copyright status of every item uploaded there, from people's outdated D&D character sheets to multi-hundred-thousand-word rants about the evils of government. They "allow" violations of their policies because they can't know, until someone tells them, that those policies are being violated. The same is true of Feedbooks, YouTube, this forum, the comments section in Joe Schmoe's blog, and just about anything else that allows any type of user-created content.

When some AOL user is handing out cracked versions of your software and AOL won't do jack about it until you get the FBI involved, then it's time to worry. (on the plus side, some junior wanna-be warez d00d, who was apparently about 13, got to explain to his mommy why the nice FBI man was at the door...)
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