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
Category: Piracy
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
Calibre is Being Used to Run 1,800 Online Content Servers – including De Facto Pirate Servers
Calibre is a widely used ebook library tool that can convert ebooks to and from just about any format and help you load said ebook on...Continue reading
Are POD Publishers Pirating Your Book on Amazon?
While programs like Google Books are performing a great public service by scanning rare public domain books and making them available, sometimes in-copyright books are also...Continue reading
EU Screws Up Copyright Ruling on Student’s Presentation
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...Continue reading
Internet Archive Wants You to Turn Your Site Into a Pirate Site
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....Continue reading
Amazon’s CreateSpace Provides a Safe Haven for Textbook Scams, Money Laundering, and Rampant Piracy
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,...Continue reading
Online Piracy Is More Popular Than Ever … Says Company That Sells Anti-Piracy Services
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...Continue reading
Internet Archive Ignores DMCA Notices
Edit: The first version of the title of this post was considerably more incendiary than intended. I changed the title about 15 seconds after publishing this...Continue reading
Infringement Lawsuit Filed Over “The Shape of Water”
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...Continue reading