Yes exactly, because DRM never hurts those who pirate books,
as pirated books by their very nature have no DRM at all and are truly user friendly.
Not exact matches
While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like 12 Years a Slave (at number 10) and Gravity (at number four), the majority of the most
pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from
books — Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug — superhero sequels and reboots like Godzilla and Robocop, although Excipio was unclear
as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the»87 original.
Look for baby
books with real photos or realistic drawings of animals and toy animals that actually look like animals (
as opposed to the singing octopus
pirate previously mentioned).
As the movie begins, Pippi (played here by Tami Erin) is living the high life on board the good ship Hoptoad, along with her father (John Schuck) Captain Ephraim Longstocking (who is implied to be a
pirate of some variety, like he is in the
books).
«U.N.I (You And I)» from And the Winner Isn't «Love and Lies» from Band Aid «If I Dare» from Battle of the Sexes «Evermore» from Beauty and the Beast «How Does a Moment Last Forever» from Beauty and the Beast «Now or Never» from Bloodline: Now or Never «She» from Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story «Your Hand I Will Never Let It Go» from The
Book of Henry «Buddy's Business» from Brawl in Cell Block 99 «The Crown Sleeps» from The Breadwinner «World Gone Mad» from Bright «Mystery of Love» from Call Me by Your Name «Visions of Gideon» from Call Me by Your Name «Captain Underpants Theme Song» from Captain Underpants The First Epic Movie «Ride» from Cars 3 «Run That Race» from Cars 3 «Tell Me How Long» from Chasing Coral «Broken Wings» from City of Ghosts «Remember Me» from Coco «Prayers for This World» from Cries From Syria «There's Something Special» from Despicable Me 3 «It Ain't Fair» from Detroit «A Little Change in the Weather» from Downsizing «Stars in My Eyes (Theme From Drawing Home)» from Drawing Home «All In My Head» from Elizabeth Blue «Dying for Ya» from Elizabeth Blue «Green» from Elizabeth Blue «Can't Hold Out on Love» from Father Figures «Home» from Ferdinand «I Don't Wan na Live Forever» from Fifty Shades Darker «You Shouldn't Look at Me That Way» from Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool «This Is How You Walk On» from Gifted «Summer Storm» from The Glass Castle «The Pure and the Damned» from Good Time «This Is Me» from The Greatest Showman «The Hero» from The Hero «How Shall a Sparrow Fly» from Hostiles «Just Getting Started» from If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast «Truth to Power» from An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power «Next Stop, The Stars» from Kepler's Dream «The Devil & The Huntsman» from King Arthur: Legend of the Sword «Have You Ever Wondered» from Lake of Fire «I'll Be Gone» from Lake of Fire «We'll Party All Night» from Lake of Fire «Friends Are Family» from The Lego Batman Movie «Found My Place» from The Lego Ninjago Movie «Stand Up for Something» from Marshall «Rain» from Mary and the Witch's Flower «Myron / Byron» from The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) «Longing for Summer» from Moomins and the Winter Wonderland «Mighty River» from Mudbound «Never Forget» from Murder on the Orient Express «Hold the Light» from Only the Brave «PBNJ» from Patti Cake $ «Tuff Love (Finale)» from Patti Cake $ «Lost Souls» from The
Pirates of Somalia «How a Heart Unbreaks» from Pitch Perfect 3 «The Promise» from The Promise «Kaadanayum Kaalchilambe» from Pulimurugan «Maanathe Maarikurumbe» from Pulimurugan «Stubborn Angel» from Same Kind of Different
as Me «Dancing Through the Wreckage» from Served Like a Girl «Keep Your Eyes on Me» from The Shack «On the Music Goes» from Slipaway «The Star» from The Star «Jump» from Step «Tickling Giants» from Tickling Giants «Fly Away» from Trafficked «Speak to Me» from Voice From the Stone «Walk on Faith» from Year by the Sea
But
as the
pirates prepare to pull off their last big score — stealing the
Book of Peace during its transfer to the port of Syracuse — someone up there has different plans.
Claude Barras — «My Life
as a Zucchini,» «Banquise (Icefloe)» Eric Beckman — «When Marnie Was There,» «Song of the Sea» Jared Bush * — «Zootopia,» «Moana» Carlos E. Cabral — «Big Hero 6,» «Frozen» Giacun Caduff — «La Femme et le TGV,» «2B or Not 2B» John K. Carr — «How to Train Your Dragon 2,» «Over the Hedge» Jeeyun Sung Chisholm — «Ice Age: Collision Course,» «The Peanuts Movie» Jericca Cleland — «Ratchet & Clank,» «Arthur Christmas» Andrew Coats — «Smash and Grab,» «Borrowed Time» John Cohen — «The Angry Birds Movie,» «Despicable Me» Lindsey Collins — «Finding Dory,» «WALL - E» Devin Crane — «Megamind,» «Monsters vs Aliens» Ricardo Curtis — «The
Book of Life,» «Dr. Seuss» Horton Hears a Who» Richard Daskas — «Turbo,» «Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas» Kristof Deák — «Sing,» «Losing It» Jason Deamer — «Piper,» «Monsters University» David DeVan — «Finding Dory,» «Brave» Walt Dohrn — «Trolls,» «Mr. Peabody & Sherman» Rob Dressel — «Moana,» «Big Hero 6» Stefan Eichenberger — «Heimatland (Wonderland),» «Parvaneh» David Eisenmann — «Pearl,» «Toy Story 3» Patrik Eklund — «Seeds of the Fall,» «Instead of Abracadabra» Steve Emerson * — «Kubo and the Two Strings,» «The Boxtrolls» Lise Fearnley — «Me and My Moulton,» «The Danish Poet» Mathias Fjellström — «Seeds of the Fall,» «Instead of Abracadabra» Arish Fyzee — «The
Pirate Fairy,» «Planes» Juanjo Giménez — «Timecode,» «Maximum Penalty» Andrew Gordon — «Monsters University,» «Presto» Jinko Gotoh — «The Little Prince,» «9» Eric Guillon — «Sing,» «The Secret Life of Pets» Lou Hamou - Lhadj — «Borrowed Time,» «Day & Night» John Hill — «Turbo,» «Shrek Forever After» Steven «Shaggy» Hornby — «How to Train Your Dragon 2,» «Rise of the Guardians» Steven Clay Hunter — «Brave,» «The Incredibles» Alessandro Jacomini — «Big Hero 6,» «Tangled» Christopher Jenkins — «Home,» «Surf's Up» Sean D. Jenkins — «Wreck - It Ralph,» «Bolt» Phil Johnston * — «Zootopia,» «Wreck - ItRalph» Oliver Jones * — «Kubo and the Two Strings,» «ParaNorman» Mohit Kallianpur — «Frozen,» «Tangled» Max Karli — «My Life
as a Zucchini,» «Victoria» Michael Kaschalk — «Big Hero 6,» «Paperman» Karsten Kiilerich — «Albert,» «When Life Departs» Timothy Lamb — «Trolls,» «Mr. Peabody & Sherman» Gina Warr Lawes — «Zootopia,» «Kung Fu Panda 2» Sang Jun Lee — «Rio 2,» «Epic» Meg LeFauve — «The Good Dinosaur,» «Inside Out» Jenny Lerew — «Mr. Peabody & Sherman,» «Flushed Away» Brad Lewis — «Storks,» «Ratatouille» Carl Ludwig — «Rio,» «Ice Age» Andrew Okpeaha MacLean — «Feels Good,» «Sikumi (On the Ice)» MaryAnn Malcomb — «Free Birds,» «Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron» Anders Mastrup — «Albert,» «When Life Departs» Moon Molson — «The Bravest, the Boldest,» «Crazy Beats Strong Every Time» Dave Mullins — «Cars 2,» «Up» Michelle Murdocca — «Hotel Transylvania,» «Open Season» Christopher Murrie * — «Kubo and the Two Strings,» «Coraline» Ramsey Naito — «The Boss Baby,» «The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie» Damon O'Beirne — «Kung Fu Panda 3,» «Rise of the Guardians» Hyrum Virl Osmond — «Moana,» «Frozen» Greg Pak — «Happy Fun Room,» «Super Power Blues» James Palumbo — «Ice Age: Collision Course,» «Ice Age: Continental Drift» Christine Panushka — «The Content of Clouds,» «The Sum of Them» Pierre Perifel — «Rise of the Guardians,» «Kung Fu Panda 2» Jeffrey Jon Pidgeon — «Monsters University,» «Up» David Pimentel — «Moana,» «Big Hero 6» Elvira Pinkhas — «Ice Age: Collision Course,» «Rio 2» Kori Rae — «Monsters University,» «Tokyo Mater» Mahesh Ramasubramanian — «Home,» «Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted» Ferenc Rofusz — «Gravitáció (Gravitation),» «The Fly» Vicki Saulls — «The Peanuts Movie,» «Ice Age: Continental Drift» Brad Schiff * — «Kubo and the Two Strings,» «The Boxtrolls» William Schwab — «Frozen,» «Wreck - It Ralph» Gina Shay — «Trolls,» «Shrek Forever After» Jeff Snow — «Over the Hedge,» «The Road to El Dorado» Peter Sohn — «The Good Dinosaur,» «Partly Cloudy» Debra Solomon — «My Kingdom,» «Getting Over Him in 8 Songs or Less» David Soren — «Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie,» «Turbo» Cara Speller — «Pear Cider and Cigarettes,» «Pearl» Peggy Stern — «Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood,» «The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation» Michael Stocker — «Finding Dory,» «Toy Story 3» Arianne Sutner — «Kubo and the Two Strings,» «ParaNorman» Ennio Torresan — «Turbo,» «Till Sbornia Takes Us Apart» Géza M. Toth — «Mama,» «Maestro» Anna Udvardy — «Sing,» «Deep Breath» Wayne Unten — «Frozen,» «Tick Tock Tale» Theodore Ushev — «Blind Vaysha,» «Gloria Victoria» Robert Valley — «Pear Cider and Cigarettes,» «Shinjuku» Timo von Gunten — «La Femme et le TGV,» «Mosquito» Gil Zimmerman — «How to Train Your Dragon 2,» «Puss in Boots» Marilyn Zornado — «Old - Time Film,» «Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase» Sound Peter Albrechtsen — «The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki,» «The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo» Christopher Assells — «John Wick: Chapter 2,» «Spectre» David Bach — «13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,» «Suicide Squad» Sylvain Bellemare — «Arrival,» «Incendies» Miriam Biderman — «Don't Call Me Son,» «The Second Mother» Charlotte Buys — «Call Me Thief,» «White Wedding» Charlie Campagna — «Blade Runner 2049,» «Nocturnal Animals» Harry Cohen — «The Fate of the Furious,» «The Hateful Eight» Mohammad Reza Delpak — «The Salesman,» «A Separation» Yann Delpuech — «The Founder,» «Saving Mr. Banks» José Luis Díaz — «Wild Tales,» «The Secret in Their Eyes» Jesse K - D.
For someone like me, unfamiliar with the SpongeBob universe, the movie opens with a beautifully scripted live - action prologue that introduces the
pirate Burger Beard
as he steals a mysterious
book from a booby - trapped island shrine (shades of Raiders of the Lost Ark).
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Captain Phillips, Screenplay by Billy Ray; Based on the
book A Captain's Duty: Somali
Pirates, Navy SEALS, And Dangerous Days At Sea by Richard Phillips with Stephan Talty; Columbia Pictures Nebraska «s Bruce Dern presented the award, hailing the writers in the audience
as the group of people who «make a business work — scribes.»
Since the
book is subtitled «A
Pirate Parent's Favorite Fables», the stories included are exciting and also educational
as well.
Dave Burgess and his
book Teach Like a
PIRATE: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life
as an Educator totally rocked my classroom when I read them during the summer of 2013.
Book: Teach Like a
PIRATE: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life
as an Educator by Dave Burgess
This serves
as a deterrent for anti-piracy agencies that scan the internet for
books posted on file sharing,
pirate and torrent sites and serves them cease and desist letters.
Third, in the eBook realms people tend to
pirate books they can not get locally due to geographical restrictions or the lack of an official copy (such
as Harry Potter).
I also publish fiction picture
books and hope they do well, such
as Rowdy: The
Pirate Who Could Not Sleep.
It had essentially become a haven for
pirates who uploaded versions of decidedly non-indie titles — Malcom Gladwell's Outliers is one —
as well
as legitimate indie
books.
I did, however, write a
Pirate book for children some time ago, and I felt this was
as good a time
as any to remind everyone of it.
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.
It is revealing, however, to learn what things Robbins lists
as having influenced the writing of Fierce Invalids: «This
book was inspired by an entry from Bruce Chatwin's journal, by a CIA agent I met in Southeast Asia, by the mystery surrounding the lost prophecy of the Virgin of Fatima, by the increasing evidence that the interplay of opposites is the engine that runs the universe, and by embroidered memories of old Terry and the
Pirates comic
books.»
«In many cases,
as I can not buy real
books, I have to download
pirated versions from the Internet.»
Websites such
as Demonoid and the
Pirate Bay have combined over 700,000 +
books in their database, which is growing exponentially
as hardware prices come down and the public is more aware of e-readers and tablets.
Googles indifference to piracy may change
as the Dutch Publishers Association has been made aware of the issue, due to Netherlands based authors complaining that their
books are being
pirated.
Lets look at the facts,
as you already pointed out, pretty much any
book you have ever heard of is available
as a
pirated ebook somewhere.
A DRM - crippled
book has fewer capabilities than its
pirate cousin (though
as Apple has shown, it may be conveniently enough packaged to overcome this handicap).
Think of these Asian and African
pirate sites
as a way to build your audience in countries where your
book isn't sold yet... and when your
book comes out in translation, or on a legit site, you'll have a fan base.
With electronic
books growing in popularity, the publishing world focuses on fighting the threat of digital
book pirates, much
as the music industry once did with illegal downloading.
As with other forms of media that made the transition to digital,
pirates embraced digital comics long before the comic -
book publishers did.
The first thing to understand about ebook spam,
pirated content, and PLR content (PLR
books are titles that were written by one author with the intention of selling that title to other would - be authors who wish to put their names on it and sell it
as their own original work, resulting in multiple copies of the same worthless
book flooding the catalog) is that the various retailers and distributors who make ebooks available to the general public are all doing their utmost to protect the integrity of their catalogs.
(He's also the creator of
books such
as The
Pirates Next Door.)
So I read the
pirated one and give the real one
as a gift, if I liked the
book.
The ebook reader might be enjoying itself
as the gadget du jour, but piracy in the ebook world could be on the up
as a result, with 31 per cent of consumers who read ebooks admitting that they download
pirate copies of
books.
But in reality, it matters not; eBooks, paperbacks, audio
books, and hard cover
books from every source —
as long
as their available to the public — can be
pirated.
Add in the fact that many of the popular ebooks are available
as torrent downloads on
pirate sites and we're talking about readers who collectively, physically don't have the time to read more
books.
We have found through our research that certain authors have been deliberately been leaking their own
books to popular Bittorrent sites such
as the
Pirate Bay and Demonoid.
Expository texts, such
as Carolyn Vaughn's Invitation to Ballet, Peter Chrisp's
Pirates, and Stephen Person's Saving Animals from Hurricanes, contain tables of contents, indexes, or other navigational devices so that readers may read only the portions of the
books that interest them, making it unnecessary to read the
books cover to cover.
The essence of our statement was that close to 75 % of all
pirates ebooks suffer from badly formatted
books, spelling mistakes, scanned
books and other factors that contribute to most
books easily found
as unreadable on most e-readers.
If someone wants to
pirate your
book, take it
as a complement, because only products with a level of notoriety or market visibility are
pirated if
pirates think there is a demand.
Plus ebooks cost almost
as much
as real
books, you are not really saving money on
books when you buy an ebooks - unless if you go to the
Pirate sites
Tangled Omens,
Book Two of the Seaward Isle Saga $ 14.99 Joni Parker Lady Alexin embarks on her first solo mission
as a tracker deep into the
pirate stronghold.
Based on Dave Burgess's popular «Outrageous Teaching» and «Teach Like a
PIRATE» seminars, this
book offers inspiration, practical techniques, and innovative ideas that will help you to increase student engagement, boost your creativity, and transform your life
as an educato... Read more...
Actually, SFReader is quite correct... In every case where it has been used, DRM has been shown to decrease sales and actually tends to * increase * piracy - because
pirates see DRMed
books as a challenge, they are more apt to put them up on torrents and such.
Add to this the problems of
book distribution within Africa itself, the abundance of cheaply printed
pirated copies and,
as she writes, «All this combined can make African readers feel that African literature exists not for them, but for Western eyes.»
While a paper
book is vulnerable to various threats, including water damage, mold and theft, e-books files may be corrupted, deleted or otherwise lost
as well
as pirated.
As an example, the IPA writes, «In Kenya, a 16 - percent VAT (value added tax) rate imposed in 2013 has caused nationwide
book sales to fall 35 percent, driven down public school performances, and ushered in an era in which
pirated textbooks now outsell their legitimate counterparts.»
DRM'd
books can be reproduced and
pirated, just
as easily
as a printed
book can be scanned and digitized (Type «Crack DRM» into Google to see how easy it is to remove DRM from a
book).
«I don't often look for
pirated copies of my
books,
as I find it too dispiriting, but I do batch - send links to my publisher now and again in the hope that they can remove some of them.»
We know of other best - selling authors such
as Paulo Coelho who deliberately encourage illegal piracy of their works by uploading their
books to
pirate sites.
By flexibly lowering the price of your
book and have your
book available
as many places
as possible, readers will be less likely to depend on the
pirate's sites.
As a self - publishing author how do you feel about
book pirating?
You will want your
book to be available
as a trade paperback (this is a normal paperback of a standard size — Lulu also do larger, coffee - table style
books),
as a hardback, and
as a PDF (don't add DRM to your PDF — DRM doesn't deter so - called «
pirates» and does deter actual readers).