Response to: Zakida Paul on Apr 4th, 2013 @ 9:27am
They realize. They just don't care. After all, they can enlist the Department of Homeland Security to go after pirates, or get extortionist settlements by threatening life-destroying lawsuits?
...it's about making it look like you made a "good faith effort", when you're engineering it to fail, then writing off the loss on your taxes, insisting piracy (instead of lack of a compelling product) is the problem, and then insisting on more legislation to put the actually successful streaming services under, and propping up your old business model.
>>If you borrow from a legitimate library, you are borrowing a copy IT bought legitimately
Correct so far.
This is why you fail:
>>Lendink was properly notified by rights holders that they did not consent to having their books on the site. Therefore those books were indeed pirated.
The books weren't on LendInk's site. People were on LendInk's site, stating they had a book available to lend. The site then puts the person wanting to borrow that book in touch with the person wanting to lend that book.
From there, the lender goes to Amazon or Barnes & Noble, and uses the already-existing tools each retailer has to lend the book.
At no time does a copy of the ebook exist on LendInk's site. No copy of the book is pirated.
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That said, I prefer the Corvair to the Edsel.
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It isn't about succeeding...
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>>If you borrow from a legitimate library, you are borrowing a copy IT bought legitimately
Correct so far.
This is why you fail:
>>Lendink was properly notified by rights holders that they did not consent to having their books on the site. Therefore those books were indeed pirated.
The books weren't on LendInk's site. People were on LendInk's site, stating they had a book available to lend. The site then puts the person wanting to borrow that book in touch with the person wanting to lend that book.
From there, the lender goes to Amazon or Barnes & Noble, and uses the already-existing tools each retailer has to lend the book.
At no time does a copy of the ebook exist on LendInk's site. No copy of the book is pirated.
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