Scribd vows to cleanup SlideShare piracy

Linkedin Slideshare is a hotbed of piracy, there are thousands of ebooks available on the platform, in a myriad of formats. The repository for documents has been around for 14 years and so far, Linkedin has been ambivalent to the growing epidemic. Over the next several months, Scribd will be integrating their BookID system into the SlideShare platform to scan all uploads for potentially unauthorized content and will be removing anything that violates their TOS.

Brein is leading the charge against ebook piracy

BREIN is a non-profit, anti-piracy organization that is based on the Netherlands.…

Ebook Piracy is out of Control and the Authors Guild is Mad

The Authors Guild has accused Google of promoting ebook piracy in their…

Japan Passes New Copyright Law to Criminalize Manga Piracy

Japan has just passed a new law that criminalizes manga piracy and…

Major Publishers File a Lawsuit Against Open Library

Hachette, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and John Wiley have filed a lawsuit…

Ebook Piracy in the Netherlands, continues to rise

In the Netherlands piracy has decreased for music, movies and television shows.…

Italy is experiencing a piracy problem with ebooks

Piracy in Italy is not as bad as some countries in the…

Textbook Publishers file a lawsuit against pirate websites

Cengage, Elsevier, Macmillan Learning, McGraw-Hill, and Pearson have just filed a lawsuit…

Academic Piracy – Where are we now?

In 2018, e-book piracy websites received over 800 million visits; a number…

Japanese Manga Publishers are targeting US Pirate Sites

Japanese manga publishers have always targeted piracy websites in Japan, but they…

Book Piracy Hackers now use Catfishing to target unsuspecting readers

In looking through the most “persuasive words” lists in the English language,…

eBook Piracy is on the rise in 2019

Ebook piracy is increasing every single year. $300 million was lost in…

Last year the ebook piracy industry cost American publishers $300 million

Ebook piracy is on the rise and last year in the United…

Ukrainian government states piracy is threatening national prosperity

The Government of the Ukraine is launching a massive campaign called Operation…

Pirating ebooks is an offence against moral justice

There are millions of people who do not buy ebooks or other…

E-Book Piracy is declining in Europe

A new study conducted by the Institute for Information Law and financed by…