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Wiley goes after BitTorrent users
John Wiley & Sons have filed a copyright infringement suit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York involving 27 'John Does' the publisher claims are illegally copying and ...
'But I paid for the hardback' -- the 'ethics' of downloading pirated ebooks
Interesting piece -- and even more interesting comments -- responding to an article in the New York Times by its resident 'ethicist', who defended the downloading of pirated ebooks when publishe...
Publishers win Rapidshare court case
Six international publishers have won a court injunction to prevent German-based filesharing website Rapidshare disctibuting copyrighted materials.
Confessions of a book pirate
Revealing interview with a 'book pirate' who spends hours scanning printed books, correcting the scans and posting them on file-sharing sites.
Most pirated books 'aren't hacked ebooks'
According to one of the presentations at the recent Digital Book World conference in New York, the majority of pirated book files on file-sharing sites are not hacked ebooks, but are generated from sc...
Piracy: '28% of ereader owners have used file-sharing'
A new study in the US reports that 28% of owners of ereader devices have used a file-sharing service to download pirated content.
Piracy study fuels debate
A US study of ebook piracy suggests that up to US$3 billion worth of revenue is being lost to online piracy, but there are many doubts being voiced on the accuracy of the figures.
Dan Brown and the pirates
Pirated electronic copies of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol are widely available on sites such as Rapidshare, the NYT reports.
Scribd fights author lawsuit
File-sharing website Scribd is fighting back after an author launched a lawsuit claiming the site 'shamelessly profits from stolen works'. Scribd insists it respects copyright and removes infringing w...
The year's most pirated ebooks
File-sharing website Freakbits has released its list of the most pirated digital books, anodd assortment of sex-releated titles and computer manuals.
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