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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...
Copyright, piracy and (anti-)DRM dominate TOC
Key topics at the recent O'Reilly Tools of Change (TOC) conference held in New York included copyright, piracy and a strong anti-DRM sentiment.
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.
How publishers encourage piracy
Four ways publishers encourage digital piracy: 1. by not releasing books digitally; 2. by crippling content with proprietary devices and DRM; 3. by creating substandard digital editions; 4. by thinkin...
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.
'90% of Macmillan titles are pirated', says US CEO
Macmillan US CEO John Sargent has told an audience at a panel discussion organised by New York University’s Center for Publishing that he was recently stunned to discover that 90% of its frontli...
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