Re: "Mutineer's Moon (Dahak Series)" by David Weber
Paul S Person <[email protected]> Sat, 23 Mar 2024 08:45:32 -0700
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On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 19:43:30 -0700, Dimensional Traveler <[email protected]> wrote: >On 3/22/2024 5:14 PM, WolfFan wrote: >And to put it where Amazon can=92t touch it; they have >> been known to reclaim ebooks. see >> https://www.pcworld.com/article/519855/amazon_kindle_1984_lawsuit.html >>=20 >> I don=92t trust them. >>=20 >Ya, that whole incident was just stupid. And of all the titles to=20 >reclaim THAT had to be first?! Much as I agree that reasonably-limited copyrights are helpful, what, exactly, is a vendor supposed to do when it finds that it has broken the law by selling something it has no right to sell? Go to jail? Pay ginormous fines [1] for copyright violation? I don't know if this is the case I remember, but, in the one I remember, the /real/ problem was that the book was an over-the-summer reading assignment requiring a book report -- and the notes the kid was planning to use for that report vanished as well. [1] At the rate of one fine per book sold, they will mount up endlessly. --=20 "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"