I recently read an article about how ebooks in Japan are pirated and how publishers want Apple Japan to set up a proactive division to seek out pirated materials:
Good luck with that, publishers. Let me introduce you to something called corporate counsel. Any legal person would laugh that out of the ballpark for even being put on the
table. This is because if distribution channels like Apple have a proactive group and miss something. then they become liable in most copyright situations. No company would enter that sort of legal risk. There is absolutely nothing to gain from that type of enforcement.
You have to understand why corporations act the way they do if you wish to pursue any interests that are pertaining them. And as organizations like this get “mad” at what is and isn’t done with larger corporations, they need to sit back and realize that there is always counsel involved in every major decision. Things such as copyright will always side on the more conservative since most companies do not like paying their attorneys needlessly to fight frivolous lawsuits. The moment you can understand this concept, then you won’t be chasing the wind when it comes to corporate ethics.