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
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Australia Passes New Law to Stem the Tide of e-Book Piracy
Australia has just passed a new law that would require internet service providers to block websites that show pirated material, such as e-books. The websites are not up to the internet companies, instead publishers and rights holders have to make a case to the Federal government and demand sites whose "primary purpose" is the illegal sharing of copyrighted material be … [Read more...] about Australia Passes New Law to Stem the Tide of e-Book Piracy
Publishers Target e-book Pirates
The International Publishers Association is taking e-book piracy seriously and has started to target websites offering free downloads. A series of websites have been targeted that have a massive collection of pirated content from 16,000 different publishers. The IPA has successfully won a judgement for $37 million dollars against Avaxhome and Avaxsearch which illegally … [Read more...] about Publishers Target e-book Pirates
eBook DRM: Providing Protection or Preventing Profits?
Have you ever purchased an e-book, but could only use it on a single device or app? That’s because digital rights management (DRM) is preventing you from moving it to other devices. By definition, DRM is any technology that sellers build into an electronic product or service to limit the range of the file’s uses after purchase. DRM is designed to prevent customers from using … [Read more...] about eBook DRM: Providing Protection or Preventing Profits?
eBook Publishers May Soon Sue ISP Providers over Pirate eBooks
BMG Rights Management and Round Hill Music have sued Cox Communications for music piracy. They did this because the internet service provider did not do enough to punish 200,000 users who downloaded illegal music. These two companies are clients of Rightscorp, a copyright enforcement agent whose business is based on threatening ISPs with a high-stakes lawsuit if they don't … [Read more...] about eBook Publishers May Soon Sue ISP Providers over Pirate eBooks
eBook Piracy Becomes a Top Concern
The UK Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit has shut down a pirate eBook website called OnRead. This service provided over two million eBooks and bestsellers for a monthly fee. OnRead is claiming innocence, even though their entire domain has been seized by authorities. OnRead made a name for themselves by providing an illicit Neflix for eBooks concept. Their low monthly … [Read more...] about eBook Piracy Becomes a Top Concern
Rightscorp to Battle eBook Pirates
Rightscorp is well known in the video and music industry with their digital loss prevention technology that tracks copyright infringement and ensures that owners and creators are rightfully paid for their IP. They developed extensive tracking analytics that allows them to see what content is being distributed through bittorrent and file sharing sites and then goes after the … [Read more...] about Rightscorp to Battle eBook Pirates
Dutch eBook Pirate Gets Away with Uploading 5,000 Titles to Pirate Bay
European Anti-Piracy organization BREIN, as not had a very good week. They just lost a major case in Dutch court which saw Internet Providers lift restrictions to the Pirate Bay. The court basically saw the ISP safeguards as being obsolete due to proxy servers and DNS workarounds. The court woes continue for BREIN as the same Dutch court dismissed a case against a 23 year old … [Read more...] about Dutch eBook Pirate Gets Away with Uploading 5,000 Titles to Pirate Bay
HarperCollins Accuses Apple of eBook Piracy
HarperCollins is one of the largest trade publishers in the world and they are not happy with the amount of people pirating their eBooks. This has resulted in them hiring anti-piracy specialises Digimarc to petition google to remove over 1,000 file sharing and websites hosting the files. One of the consequences of this event was hitting Apple with a slew of takedown requests. … [Read more...] about HarperCollins Accuses Apple of eBook Piracy
Unpublished Salinger Stories Leaked via PDF
In what is quite possibly going to prove to be one of the most famous examples of ebook piracy, an apparent leak of three of JD Salinger's unpublished short stories seems to have happened thanks to a buyer on eBay. The manuscripts for the stories, "Birthday Boy," "Paula," and what appears to be somewhat of a continuation of the lives of the characters found in Salinger's best … [Read more...] about Unpublished Salinger Stories Leaked via PDF