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Category: Piracy
Dutch Supreme Court Seeks European Clarification on Pirate Bay Lawsuit
The Dutch Supreme Court referred a landmark case against the file-sharing website Pirate Bay to the European Court of Justice on Friday, a move that could lead to a precedent...Continue reading
Survey Shows Swedish Pirates More Likely to Pay for Content
Pirates are often the most ardent fans who are widely viewed as the best customers, and now we have another survey to back that up. TorrentFreak has the story on a...Continue reading
Elsevier Wins Injunction Ordering Pirate Sites to Close
In June of this year one of the world’s largest academic publishers, Elsevier, filed suit against several sites that host pirated ebooks and academic articles. That suit is only in its...Continue reading
Google Ordered to Release eBook Pirate’s Details to Dutch Anti-Piracy Group
A judge in the Netherlands has ordered Google to hand over the account info for the ebook pirate behind the Flâmanca Hollanda account. About three weeks ago Google was sued by the Dutch...Continue reading
Dutch Anti-Piracy Group Files Suit over Piracy in Google Play Books
Until they were publicly shamed into changing their policy earlier this year, Google used to have a laissez-faire attitude towards piracy in Google Play Books. Now that indifference is coming...Continue reading
Blasty Vaporizes Pirated Content in Google Search Results
eBook pirates use Google’s search engine to attract downloaders, and scammers use it (along with fake pirated ebook pages) to find their next victim. Until today authors and publishers had two...Continue reading
The 100 Biggest Copyright Infringers, According to Google
If you’re looking to download some illicit music tonight, Paul Resnikoff of Digital Music News has pulled together a list of the best places to find pirated content. He’s crunched the...Continue reading
Scammers Are Using Createspace to Spam Amazon With Pirated Textbooks
A reader has tipped me to the news that Amazon’s own website is a great source of pirated books. Scot Schad discovered that pirates had been ripping off freely available...Continue reading
Facebook: AudibleMagic Can’t Prevent Video Piracy, But We’re Using Them Anyway
Facebook has long had a problem with pirated videos, so much so that it’s received major press coverage and had named Youtubers ranting about the problem. But don’t worry, FB has...Continue reading
Google Play Piracy Takes a Turn for the Bizarre
Over the weekend the NYTimes revealed that Google was taking steps to curb the piracy problem in Google Play Books. Based on what I am hearing from authors, Google hasn’t solved...Continue reading
NYTimes: Rousting the Book Pirates From Google Play
The NYTimes’ Haggler column followed up today on my reports of the rampant piracy in Google Play Books. David Segal learned of the problem from by a reader who had found a pirated...Continue reading
The Pirates Are Getting Smarter
Many authors constantly fight piracy, and that has proven to have an unfortunate (but entirely expected) side effect. Pirates are getting smarter. John Doppler spotlighted a new, smarter breed of...Continue reading
PSA: Playster Isn’t Illegally Hosting Your PDFs
There’s a new scam sweeping the internet, one which is harming both authors and readers alike. Over the past few weeks I’ve heard authors say that they’re finding more pirated copies...Continue reading
RIAA and Other Groups Make Not-So-Empty Threats Over Cnet’s Download Site
When it comes to trade groups making public attacks on their Lillian du jour, there’s Authors United and its small cabal of Amazon-haters with a noisy but ultimately meaningless letter to the...Continue reading