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Originally Posted by
finfin91 
I'm not sure what this is about. Is this company giving books away for free? I don't see what's wrong with that. If the company purchases books and give them away, that should be their prerogative, right? It's just like a library, but instead of giving the book back, they get to keep it.
Not quite. This website allows its users to upload, well, documents. That can be pretty much anything - term papers, newspaper articles, essays, umm... transcripts of any kind, personal writings, and so on... And copyrighted books as well, I guess. The legality isn't 100 percent clear as far as sites such as this one go.
Think YouTube for written documents.
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SlytherinSistah As opposed to simply not doing this very illegal thing in the first place. H'mm...better to beg forgiveness than ask permission, much? O__o
As I understand it, the content on Scribd is uploaded by its users, not the site staff or anything, so acting on DMCA notices is the best they can do, I guess. Again, much like YouTube I suppose.