Piracy

EU Screws Up Copyright Ruling on Student’s Presentation

10 August, 2018 // 6 Comments

One of the few bright spots in US copyright law (along with DMCA Safe Harbors) is the legal principle of fair use - the idea that under certain conditions one can use a copyrighted work without [Read More ...]

Internet Archive Wants You to Turn Your Site Into a Pirate Site

13 May, 2018 // 4 Comments

The Open Library is a free web library slash pirate site run by the Internet Archive. It lends ebooks, and can be used by anyone online. A recent update added a new option where anyone with a website [Read More ...]

Amazon’s CreateSpace Provides a Safe Haven for Textbook Scams, Money Laundering, and Rampant Piracy

13 April, 2018 // 13 Comments

Amazon is destroying the Kindle Store from the inside out by letting broken algorithms run the show, punishing innocents while letting major scammers off scot-free. Createspace, in comparison, would [Read More ...]

Online Piracy Is More Popular Than Ever … Says Company That Sells Anti-Piracy Services

26 March, 2018 // 6 Comments

Piracy is such a huge problem that several industries reported record revenues last year. TorrentFreak brings us news of a new global piracy report from Muso that shows record high levels of piracy: [Read More ...]

Internet Archive Ignores DMCA Notices

22 February, 2018 // 11 Comments

the Internet Archive is burning its positive reputation to the ground Edit: The first version of the title of this post was considerably more incendiary than intended. I changed the title about 15 [Read More ...]

Infringement Lawsuit Filed Over “The Shape of Water”

22 February, 2018 // 1 Comment

There used to be a time where the passing similarities between two works only interested academics and aficionados. Now it is grounds for claims of copyright infringement. The Hollywood Reporter [Read More ...]

FairPlay Canada’s Proposed Website-Blocking System Faces Fierce Opposition

6 February, 2018 // 6 Comments

The data shows that blocking pirate sites causes more harm than good, but that hasn't stopped Canadian media companies from demanding that their government implement a website blacklist. A coalition [Read More ...]

Google Is Now Accepting Indie Authors into Play Books (Sometimes, And Only If You Ask Nice)

9 November, 2017 // 9 Comments

When Google closed its publisher portal two and a half years ago in response to massive ebook piracy, they said the move was temporary so they could "improve our content management capabilities and [Read More ...]

Offering Bitcoin Rewards for Turning in eBook Pirates, and Other Bad Ideas

14 September, 2017 // 14 Comments

Bitcoin and blockchain are the hot new buzzwords in tech, so much so that it is easy to find a double dozen startup using blockchains for the most ridiculous reasons. (For example, Binded/Blockai [Read More ...]

Australian Courts Order Blocking of 59 Piracy Sites as Movie Distributor Readies Lawsuits Against Downloaders

24 August, 2017 // 0 Comments

Over the past couple decades record labels and movie studios have tried numerous ways to fight piracy, including suing downloaders (US, UK) and forcing ISPs to block websites (UK, Belgium). Neither [Read More ...]

Textbook Publishers Now Fight Piracy With Seals of Approval

7 June, 2017 // 2 Comments

Publishers have been raising textbook prices for so many decades and have driven the price of textbooks so high that they have created a profitable opportunity for counterfeiters. There's serious [Read More ...]

Piracy Cost American Book Publishers $315 Million in Lost Sales, Digimarc Claims

15 March, 2017 // 13 Comments

Anti-piracy firm Digimarc has taken a stab at defining the scale of the ebook piracy issue. They hired Nielsen to conduct a consumer survey on piracy, and found: E-book piracy currently costs U.S. [Read More ...]

Textbook Publishers File Suit Against Amazon Marketplace Sellers for Alleged Piracy

24 January, 2017 // 6 Comments

Cengage, McGraw-Hill, and Pearson have started a new round of lawsuits against textbook sellers. The Financial Times reports that this time around the publishers are targeting defendants who sell [Read More ...]

19 Months Later, and Google Still Hasn’t Reopened Signups in Its Play Books Publishing Portal

30 December, 2016 // 7 Comments

It has been nineteen months since Google closed its book publisher portal in Google Play Books, and the larger blogosphere is just beginning to realize that it may never reopen. A couple days ago [Read More ...]

Kenyan Publishers Face Two Problems: High Taxes, and Piracy Caused by High Taxes

23 August, 2016 // 1 Comment

A couple stories crossed my desk this week which reminded me that piracy is sometimes the market's way of saying that prices are too damn high. Last week Standard Digital reported that the Kenyan [Read More ...]

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