200+ Million Digital Piracy Instances Removed in 2023 23 February 2024 by Navkiran Dhaliwal 0 Comments Piracy is a major issue for digital publishers including Kakao Entertainment's subsidiary Tapas Entertainment, which focuses on publishing webcomics and web novels. For publishers that make their money off of clicks and microtransaction coins, having the same content being uploaded elsewhere for free on the same day without the owners' permission can have long-term consequences … [Read more...] about 200+ Million Digital Piracy Instances Removed in 2023
Integrating anti-piracy education into school curricula to let students adopt better digital ethics 23 August 2023 by Sovan Mandal 2 Comments One of the biggest tragedies of online piracy is that it undermines the hard work, creativity, and livelihoods of content creators and industry professionals who invest their time and expertise in producing original and valuable digital content. While the practice is rampant across the world and almost among all age groups, it is quite painful to see young emerging minds … [Read more...] about Integrating anti-piracy education into school curricula to let students adopt better digital ethics
Canadian Coalition Wants to Address eBook Piracy 6 February 2018 by Michael Kozlowski 0 Comments A broad coalition of media organizations comprising of Bell, Cineplex, Directors Guild of Canada, Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, Movie Theatre Association of Canada, and Rogers Media has formed a new organization called FairPlay, which seeks to address rampant piracy in Canada. They want to lobby for new rules with the CRTC to form a national blocklist that will mandate … [Read more...] about Canadian Coalition Wants to Address eBook Piracy
eBook Pirates in the UK to Get 10 Years in Jail 21 July 2015 by Michael Kozlowski 4 Comments Most of us are likely guilty of pirating the odd e-book or downloading a few songs from the internet. If the United Kingdom gets their way, the maximum jail sentence could be increasing from two years to ten years. The proposed measures are mainly targeted at the distributors of pirated content - the people creating copies of movies, sometimes before release, and uploading … [Read more...] about eBook Pirates in the UK to Get 10 Years in Jail
