Sooner or later, every author suffers that dreadful experience of finding websites offering
free illegal downloads of her book.
Not exact matches
Questions such as, «How will an author make money from her own work if everyone is simply
downloading it for
free off an
illegal sharing website?»
At Bloodhound Books we get at least an email a week from one of our authors regarding the problem, and all our authors have at some point found at least one of their novels available to
download for
free on an
illegal site.
What should you do if you find one of your titles available for
free download on an
illegal torrenting site?
What To Do: Step 1 «Today, I'm going to share with you the first step in the process of having
illegal free downloads removed from an unauthorized site.»
There will always be people who use
illegal downloads because they're
free, but what DC needs to worry about is people who would pay for a legitimate
download but grabbed the torrent first because it was up when they woke up this morning, and they could read the comic over their coffee.
These files are NOT
illegal warez
downloads, we only offer files that we believe we are
free to redistribute.
It isn't
illegal to
download copyrighted work without paying if they are under
free licenses.
I was wondering, if I scanned them into PDFs and uploaded them on my website for people to VIEW for
free, not
DOWNLOAD, would it be
illegal?
Typically, they'll
download an
illegal copy of some software for
free, find a «crack» app that can activate the software with a fake license, and then stick both of them on a burned CD or a simple USB drive to sell to suckers online.