Comments on: Is Amazon Selling Pirated Books? http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/02/10/is-amazon-selling-pirated-books/ Connecting the dots ... Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:19:13 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: J Beskin http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/02/10/is-amazon-selling-pirated-books/#comment-14710 J Beskin Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:48:49 +0000 http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/02/10/is-amazon-selling-pirated-books/#comment-14710 What about pirated CDs and DVDs. I have gotten several with not the right jacket cover or the right jacket cover but no info or original print on the CDs and DVDs itself. If stealing from artists as I suspect. Amazon needs to get sued and I have warned them by phone today on this matter. What about pirated CDs and DVDs.
I have gotten several with not the right jacket cover or the right jacket cover but no info or original print on the CDs and DVDs itself. If stealing from artists as I suspect. Amazon needs to get sued and I have warned them by phone today on this matter.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/02/10/is-amazon-selling-pirated-books/#comment-1204 Anonymous Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:09:13 +0000 http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/02/10/is-amazon-selling-pirated-books/#comment-1204 Whether they are shady/ pirates or what not is irrelevant, what they are doing is totally legal under the terms of the license Seth published the book under. As for the idiots with the public domain recordings, what did they expect? You can't "steel" as they claim, from the public domain, the very nature of public domain is that it's free for any one to do with as they please. To both Seth and the recording people: you've got no one but to blame but yourself. There's a simple answer: it's called copyright, try using that next time instead of some hippy crap license from creative commons. Whether they are shady/ pirates or what not is irrelevant, what they are doing is totally legal under the terms of the license Seth published the book under.

As for the idiots with the public domain recordings, what did they expect? You can’t “steel” as they claim, from the public domain, the very nature of public domain is that it’s free for any one to do with as they please.

To both Seth and the recording people: you’ve got no one but to blame but yourself. There’s a simple answer: it’s called copyright, try using that next time instead of some hippy crap license from creative commons.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/02/10/is-amazon-selling-pirated-books/#comment-1203 Anonymous Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:48:33 +0000 http://www.zoliblog.com/2007/02/10/is-amazon-selling-pirated-books/#comment-1203 Hi Zoli, No, Amazon is not selling pirated books. They are selling copies of the book authorized by Seth himself. Seth had been generous enough to license his book under one of the Creative Commons licenses that explicitly allows such printing. I feel he is now <a href="http://manastungare.com/blog/2007/02/10/the-letter-and-intent-of-creative-commons-licensing/" rel="nofollow">going against the intent of that license</a> by discrediting the printed book. Hi Zoli,

No, Amazon is not selling pirated books. They are selling copies of the book authorized by Seth himself. Seth had been generous enough to license his book under one of the Creative Commons licenses that explicitly allows such printing. I feel he is now going against the intent of that license by discrediting the printed book.

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