Surely the idea of making reviewers provide proof that they do actually have the book would put this issue to rest once and for all while also ensuring that the site only offers genuine reviews?
Are you willing to be the one who makes sure the poster actually has a pre-release copy? Or are you just willing to make more work for someone else? If you are actually willing to do the actual work, how pray tell will you do that? What kind of proof can the reviewers provide? Scanned copyright page? anybody can fake those. ISBN #? already published. Get real man.
The ones who would have committed the copyright infringement would be the ones distributing the book, not the ones reading it. Someone can't violate copyright just by reading and reviewing a book, at least from what I know. (If I rented a movie, made a copy of it, and gave it to a friend, I would be violating copyright. If I rented a movie and invited a friend over to watch it with me, though, I wouldn't be violating copyright, nor would I be if I were the friend who was invited over.)
Umm...You ever heard of Napster? All it would take would be one quote from the book and TOR would be completely within it's rights to shut RAFO down. Are YOU personally willing to be legally responsible for something that someone posts here? Sorry but I'm not. And sure, anybody at any time can post anything here. But by providing a spot for pirates to post what they want, the situation changes to "abetting and encouraging".
NaCl(the admins work hard enough, and we don't need to encourage piracy)H2O

Do you guys want pre-release reviews on this board?
20/09/2009 08:40:03 AM
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No, if people want to review the book, they can do it on their own blogs. *NM*
20/09/2009 09:27:18 AM
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Yes. Visitors who don't want them should simply avoid reading them. *NM*
20/09/2009 02:42:15 PM
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If it's going to be in a separate section, and it's spoiler free, why is "NO" even an option?
20/09/2009 05:04:11 PM
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Absolutley! ^ If they don't want to read that section then it shouldn't be a problem. *NM*
21/09/2009 04:24:37 AM
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Re: Do you guys want pre-release reviews on this board?
20/09/2009 05:33:49 PM
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Yes-- reviews are an essential part of any fanpage-- People have the option not to read them though *NM*
20/09/2009 06:53:42 PM
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Why is No even an option? there supposedly wont be spoilers duh *NM*
20/09/2009 11:40:37 PM
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Yes. If a review is clearly marked as such, please who don't want to read it don't have to. *NM*
21/09/2009 12:59:54 PM
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If they are quarantined in an announced post, I don't see and problem for me, so yes I guess
21/09/2009 01:09:41 PM
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No
21/09/2009 06:15:19 PM
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I think you missread the rules...
21/09/2009 08:24:22 PM
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so you want to give the admins all kinds of extra work?
22/09/2009 02:16:56 AM
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I'm strongly against it
22/09/2009 05:06:13 AM
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I hadn't thought about all that, you should have made some kind of pros and cons list
22/09/2009 08:53:39 AM
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Re: I'm strongly against it
22/09/2009 11:45:26 AM
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So are you going to be the one to enforce this?
22/09/2009 12:03:16 PM
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Re: So are you going to be the one to enforce this?
22/09/2009 12:16:57 PM
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Re: I'm strongly against it
22/09/2009 02:39:55 PM
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I had no idea about these legalities.
22/09/2009 05:44:18 PM
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Re: I had no idea about these legalities.
22/09/2009 06:25:20 PM
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You're going to ban/forbid spoiler filled reviews? Weak.
22/09/2009 08:26:15 AM
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Ever hear of Napster?
22/09/2009 12:11:02 PM
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But that only applies to piracy of the actual book itself.
23/09/2009 12:36:35 AM
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Re: But that only applies to piracy of the actual book itself.
23/09/2009 07:33:11 PM
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