Internet Piracy

Author : Gini Graham Scott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781621534952

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Internet Book Piracy by Gini Graham Scott Pdf

The international battle against Internet pirates has been heating up. Increasingly law enforcement is paying attention to book piracy as ebook publishing gains an ever-larger market share. With this threat to their health and even survival, publishers and authors must act much like the music, film, and software giants that have waged war against pirates for the past two decades. Now, The Battle against Internet Piracy opens a discussion on what happens to the victims of piracy. Drawing from a large number of interviews—from writers, self-publishers, mainstream publishers, researchers, students, admitted pirates, free speech advocates, attorneys, and local and international law enforcement officials—the text speaks to such issues as: •Why pirates have acted and how they feel about it •The conflict over constitutional rights and piracy •The current laws surrounding Internet piracy •Examples of cases taken against some pirates •Alternatives to piracy •Personal experiences of being ripped off •The ways piracy affects different industries and how they’ve responded Author Gini Graham Scott prepares readers to arm themselves against these modern perils by learning about copyright, infringement, and how to prevent, combat, and end book piracy. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

Author : Martin Paul Eve
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781685710361

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Warez by Martin Paul Eve Pdf

When most people think of piracy, they think of Bittorrent and The Pirate Bay. These public manifestations of piracy, though, conceal an elite worldwide, underground, organized network of pirate groups who specialize in obtaining media – music, videos, games, and software – before their official sale date and then racing against one another to release the material for free. Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy is the first scholarly research book about this underground subculture, which began life in the pre-internet era Bulletin Board Systems and moved to internet File Transfer Protocol servers (“topsites") in the mid- to late-1990s. The “Scene," as it is known, is highly illegal in almost every aspect of its operations. The term “Warez" itself refers to pirated media, a derivative of “software." Taking a deep dive in the documentary evidence produced by the Scene itself, Warez describes the operations and infrastructures an underground culture with its own norms and rules of participation, its own forms of sociality, and its own artistic forms. Even though forms of digital piracy are often framed within ideological terms of equal access to knowledge and culture, Eve uncovers in the Warez Scene a culture of competitive ranking and one-upmanship that is at odds with the often communalist interpretations of piracy. Broad in scope and novel in its approach, Warez is indispensible reading for anyone interested in recent developments in digital culture, access to knowledge and culture, and the infrastructures that support our digital age.

Author : Nathan Fisk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780313354748

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Understanding Online Piracy by Nathan Fisk Pdf

The complex world of online piracy and peer-to-peer file sharing is skillfully condensed into an easy-to-understand guide that provides insight into the criminal justice approach to illegal file sharing, while offering guidance to parents and students who have concerns about potential legal action in response to file-sharing activities. While the actual impact of digital piracy is nearly impossible to precisely calculate, the threat of financial damage from illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing to the world's highest-grossing entertainment firms (and even entire industries!) has garnered attention from government, industry, and academic leaders and criminal justice professionals. Oftentimes, those providing access to computers and file sharing capabilities-parents, schools, libraries-don't know about or understand these activities and, therefore, put themselves and their families at risk for criminal and civil prosecution. This work describes the technological, legal, social, and ethical facets of illegal peer-to-peer file sharing. Geared toward parents, teachers, librarians, students, and any other computer user engaged in file sharing, this book will help readers to understand all forms of traditional and digital copyright violations of protected music, movies, and software. To date over 18,000 P2P users have been sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Most of these users have been college students and parents of high-school students. While word of these law suits are spreading, and many parents fear that their children may be using a family computer to illegally download and share copyrighted works, few supervising adults have the technical knowledge needed to determine whether and to what extent pirating may be occurring via a computer and Internet connection they are legally responsible for. Additionally, while P2P networks are filled with millions of users with billions of copyrighted files, few users understand the ways in which they are illegally using computers and other mobile electronic devices to download protected content. While describing both technical and social issues, this book primarily focuses on the social aspects of illegal file sharing, and provides technical concepts at a general level. Fisk skillfully condenses the complex nature of file sharing systems into an easy-to-understand guide, provides insight into the criminal justice approach to illegal file sharing, and offers guidance to parents and students who have concerns about potential legal action in response to file sharing activities.

Author : Gail Blasser Riley
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761449027

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Internet Piracy by Gail Blasser Riley Pdf

This engaging series examines various controversial topics present in today's society.

Author : Gail Blasser Riley
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781608702916

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Internet Piracy by Gail Blasser Riley Pdf

Provides readers with information regarding internet piracy.

Author : Lee Hunnewell
Publisher : ABDO Publishing Company
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781617852602

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Internet Piracy by Lee Hunnewell Pdf

Discusses the controversial viewpoints regarding internet piracy.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822028951739

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Costs of Internet Piracy for the Music and Software Industries by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : PURD:32754071551703

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Implementation of the "NET" Act and Enforcement Against Internet Piracy by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property Pdf

Author : Jack Foster
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783656595243

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Internet Piracy. Deadly Parasite or Benign Bug? by Jack Foster Pdf

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Communications - Multimedia, Internet, New Technologies, , language: English, abstract: Piracy has been a staple of human history throughout time, and it is showing no signs of stopping any time in the near future. With the adoption of the internet, piracy now has a new face, or rather no face. Anonymous users log on every day to torrent the latest episode of Breaking Bad or the latest and greatest piece of software released in order to acquire this content without having to pay for it. Ever since the invention of Napster and Limewire, piracy has been at the forefront of internet news and the hitlist of corporations. Internet piracy causes massive amounts of issues for corporations that rely on the sales of their services to run and are doing everything in their power to stop it. Through lobbying, many different strict copyright bills, including the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), have been put through Congress in order to cut down on the amount of piracy and increase the legal ramifications of these thefts. I agree that piracy is an immoral and unethical practice, however I believe that piracy provides increased sales figures and that the benefits of piracy, including advances in technology and business practices, outweigh the perceived detriments. The beginnings of internet piracy came along with the beginnings of the computer generation. It didn't use to be internet piracy, it was simply electronic piracy wherein a person legally buys software, then hands it off to a friend for them to download as well. Internet piracy was very limited in its early days due to the fact that it was much more difficult then than now, as well as the benefits being far outweighed by possible risks. Once digital media became more and more prominent, these barriers to piracy were quickly dissolved. It suddenly became easy to create an identical copy of a file, causing a large influx of pirated content.

Author : Stryszowski Piotr,Scorpecci Danny
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264065437

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Piracy of Digital Content by Stryszowski Piotr,Scorpecci Danny Pdf

A study of digital piracy - the infringement of copyrighted content such as music, films, software, broadcasts, books, etc. - where the end product does not involve the use of hard media such as CDs or DVDs.

Author : James Arvanitakis,Martin Fredriksson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Computer crimes
ISBN : 1936117592

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Piracy by James Arvanitakis,Martin Fredriksson Pdf

"A collection of texts that takes a broad perspective on digital piracy and attempts to capture the multidimensional impacts of digital piracy on capitalist society today"--

Author : Steven Caldwell Brown,Thomas J. Holt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351657273

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Digital Piracy by Steven Caldwell Brown,Thomas J. Holt Pdf

Non-Commercial digital piracy has seen an unprecedented rise in the wake of the digital revolution; with wide-scale downloading and sharing of copyrighted media online, often committed by otherwise law-abiding citizens. Bringing together perspectives from criminology, psychology, business, and adopting a morally neutral stance, this book offers a holistic overview of this growing phenomenon. It considers its cultural, commercial, and legal aspects, and brings together international research on a range of topics, such as copyright infringement, intellectual property, music publishing, movie piracy, and changes in consumer behaviour. This book offers a new perspective to the growing literature on cybercrime and digital security. This multi-disciplinary book is the first to bring together international research on digital piracy and will be key reading for researchers in the fields of criminology, psychology, law and business.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Computers
ISBN : PURD:32754081263638

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Piracy of Live Sports Broadcasting Over the Internet by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf

Author : Lee Hunnewell
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781604538182

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Internet Piracy by Lee Hunnewell Pdf

Discusses the controversial viewpoints regarding internet piracy.

Author : Vivencio O. Ballano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789812879226

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Sociological Perspectives on Media Piracy in the Philippines and Vietnam by Vivencio O. Ballano Pdf

This book addresses the persistence of the optical media piracy trade in the Philippines and Vietnam. It goes beyond arguments of defective law enforcement and copyright legal systems by applying sociological perspectives to examine the socio-economic forces behind the advent of piracy in the region. Using documentary and ethnographic data, in addition to resistance and ecological theories in sociology of law and technology as the overall theoretical framework, the book investigates factors that contribute to this phenomenon and factors that impede the full formalization of the optical media trade in the two countries. These factors include the government’s attitude towards the informal sector and strong resistance to tougher IPR protection, unstable and sometimes conflicting policies on technologies, burdensome business registration process and weak enforcement of business regulations, bureaucratic corruption and loopholes in law enforcement system as well as trade ties with China. In addition to that, the book highlights the social background of the actors behind the illegal business of counterfeit CDs and DVDs, thereby explaining the reasons they continue to persist in this type of trade. It invites policymakers, law enforcers, advocates of anti-piracy groups, and the general public to use a more holistic lens in understanding the persistence of copyright piracy in developing countries, shifting the blame from the moral defect of the traders to the current problematic copyright policy and enforcement structure, and the difficulty of crafting effective anti-piracy measures in a constantly evolving and advancing technological environment.