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This is why lawsuits of the form that SCO appears to be threatening&mdash;against users of copyrighted works for infringement damages&mdash;do not actually happen. Imagine the literary equivalent of SCO's current bluster: Publishing house A alleges that the bestselling novel by Author X topping the charts from Publisher B plagiarizes its own more obscure novel by Author Y. &ldquo;But,&rdquo; the chairman of Publisher A announces at a news conference, &ldquo;we're not suing Author X or Publisher B; we're only suing all the people who bought X's book. They have to pay us for a license to read the book immediately, or we'll come after them.&rdquo; That doesn't happen, because that's not the law.