Pirating books allows one to collect a heavy volume of books.
Not exact matches
Hundreds of puzzles to solve via message in bottles /
books, weather and day / night effects that affect you, different types of missions that
allow you to stumble upon more quests along the way and get side - tracked, PvP where you can steal opponent's loot, 45 minute raids where you are prone to attack from other players, rep gains that lead to end - game, customize boat /
pirate to show off your skill, easy to pick up and hard to master.
This is a big win for the publishing and entertainment industry and the popular torrent sites such as The
Pirate Bay and KickAssTorrents, which
allow people to illicitly download
books, movies and TV shows online without paying, are expected to be among the first websites in rights holders» sights.
Not only would the ebooks be harder to
pirate with the inclusion of digital watermarks, but this would
allow users to read their purchased
books on any platform with a web - browser.
Before anyone expresses concern that Amazon is now stripping
books from its retail website due to simply not thinking they are worthy, the terms of service for using KDP have always
allowed the retailer to do so, a right they have exercised in the past in regard to immoral, pornographic, and
pirated works.
Most people
pirate books because of the money factor and most
book sharing clubs
allow their members to lend and get lent
books for free.
Now, all my print - only
books are ebooks on
pirate sites, even though Amazon told me that it never sold any of the illegally created «ebook» versions of my work (except to me) if Amazon lied to me, and if Amazon
allows people who illegally bought illegal copies of my works which were created in violation of my copyrights (and for which I was never paid any royalties) do you think those re-sales will be legal?
In my case, DRM is an inducement to
pirate, or at least it was prior to Kindle cloud reading software that
allowed access from any device: In order to read purchased
books on something other than a kindle or my iPad, I had no choice but to
pirate the
book for which I had already paid.
They don't
allow patrons to make unlimited Xerox copies (downloads) of the
books on their shelves the way Scribd and other
book pirates do.