People take far too much comfort in the idea of safe harbor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_Liability_Limitation_Act#Direct_Financi

People take far too much comfort in the idea of safe harbor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_Liability_Limitation_Act#Direct_Financial_Benefit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_L... It's not a blank check to create a site full of blatant infringement. You have to be very naive to think Scribd really does everything they could to prevent copyrighted content from being uploaded. The kindest assumption would be that they're incompetent, but that's probably not the case. They're just twiddling their thumbs about it because it's the main driver of traffic. Hopefully they've retained some good lawyers.