Copyright Bots Are Now Going After Bot-Written Parody Songs (Well, One Song)
Did you see the story this past week about AI-written parody song lyrics were DMCA-ed from Twitter? I for one don’t think it’s been reported accurately....Continue reading
Category: Piracy
Cartoon Network and Star Trek Panels at San Diego Comic-Con Were Blocked by Youtube’s ContentID
It is a truth universally acknowledged that large automated content filters do not function well at all, and the only thing keeping such a system from...Continue reading
Why the Internet Archive’s The Open Library is Not a Real Library
One of the more common arguments made by defenders of the Internet Archive’s site, The Open Library, is that it is a library. They point out...Continue reading
Internet Archive is Shutting Down National Emergency Library Two Weeks Early
The Internet Archive is shutting down one of its pirate sites ahead of schedule, and they are also not being honest about the reason. Yesterday IA...Continue reading
Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post Takes Pro-Piracy Position on Internet Archive
With one of the strictest paywalls in the news industry (you can’t even view an article if you block adverts), the Washington Post takes getting paid...Continue reading
Four Publishers File Suit Over Internet Archive’s Pirate Site
I can’t beleive it – book publishers have given Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle exactly what he wanted. Today the AAP announced that four US publishers...Continue reading
Authors Protest Internet Archive Pirating Their Books
Authors have discovered that the Internet Archive has converted its lending library site into an out and out pirate site, and they are not happy, For...Continue reading
eBook Piracy – How to Respond If Someone Steals Your eBook Online
Sunday, 16 February 2020, was the day that I became a real author. I have been a writer for over a decade now, but Sunday was...Continue reading
POD Giveth, and POD Taketh Away (Piracy)
About four years back I uncovered a massive textbook piracy operation running unchecked in Createspace. Enterprising scammers were stealing dozens of digital textbooks, then pirating them...Continue reading
The Biggest Plagiarism Scandal in the History of eBooks Slipped by Amazon Unnoticed
When news broke a little over two months ago that the Brazilian author person Cristiane Serruya had copied parts of Courtney Milan’s book, The Duchess War,...Continue reading
The Problem with eBook Piracy Spam
Try this experiment. Go to Amazon and pull up any book, any book at all as long as it has been out for at least a few...Continue reading
Pirate Site Owner Launches GoFundMe Campaign to Raise Funds to Defend a Piracy Suit
I have disliked Travis McCrea ever since he claimed his earlier ebook site, The Ultimate eBook Library, was protected by the DMCA, but now he is...Continue reading
Anti-Piracy Service Blasty is Back Online After a Week’s Downtime
Since 2015 Blasty has been offering an anti-piracy service where they automatically scanned the web for pirated copies of an author’s work and gave authors the...Continue reading
Amazon is Still Selling Pirated POD Textbooks
Over the past three years I have reported no fewer than four times about Amazon’s ongoing problem with counterfeit and pirated books in its POD service,...Continue reading
The Writers’ Union of Canada Condemns The Internet Archive’s Pirate Site, “The Open Library”
Hard on the heels of news that the UK Society of Authors condemning the Internet Archive for piracy comes an announcement from The Writers’ Union of Canada...Continue reading