Sentences with phrase «of rampant piracy»

According to a new report, one of the most guilty countries of rampant piracy in Europe, is the Netherlands.

Since all purchases you make on the Blackberry Playbook are now encrypted to work with the original purchaser, this should curb some of the rampant piracy going on.

China's entire music industry generated $ 480 million in revenue from live and recorded music in 2016, PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates, a small - sounding figure thanks to years of rampant piracy: later data aren't yet available.

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The fact is piracy is rampant in all forms of commerce.

Such piracy was rampant as the colossal ice sheets of the Last Glacial Maximum began shrinking around 18,000 years ago.

But media distribution usually runs this course: DRM is enforced out of fear, and in the face of flagging sales and rampant piracy, the industry moves toward open standards.

A high penetration of internet facilities in Russia (90 percent) coupled with rampant piracy has ensured there is enough demand for ebooks in the country.

Many people within the European Commission are publicly stating that one of the reasons why piracy is running rampant is because of Geoblocking.

This copying of physical books into digital formats for resale through piracy websites is a clear indication that the crime is rampant, but also that «security blanket» measures like DRM - encryption only stop honest people from using their legally purchased ebooks in the way that they see fit and best suits their reading needs.

To calm the fear of potential rampant piracy, publishers of e-books are opting for the more conservative DRM approach to protect their investments and the work of writers, but that comes with some risk to customer satisfaction.

One of the other largest factors on why piracy is running rampant is because of the per capita income is a paltry $ 1,168 US.

In the end, with piracy so rampant in the country it won't be an easy job to get rid of it quickly and completely.

There is no dispute that with the growth of e-readers and ebooks that rampant piracy is growing.

The company has publicly stated on many occasions that Piracy is one of the things running rampant on the Android platform and they would do their darnedest to make sure their ecosystem does not turn into a cesspool.

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Many people are feeling the crunch of dwindling revenue because of the rampant growth of ebook piracy over the last few years.

In what has to be the winner of the Captain Obvious Award, new voices are speaking out against rampant ebook piracy.

d) Piracy is running rampant and digital watermarks do not have any market share outside of Europe.

Google Play Books used to be a viable option for self - published authors, but due to rampant abuse of their Partner Program the company decided to halt all new registrations until they could put mechanisms in place to prevent piracy.

Piracy is a rampant problem in Indonesia, and publishers can not be blamed to be pessimistic about the prospect of selling e-books and getting pirated easily.

It's a scary - but - true fact of life for self - published authors: eBook piracy is rampant.

With the rampant piracy, low worker income, and the unavailability of e-readers to buy, it is no wonder why ebooks only account for 1 % of all published works.

GoodEReader.com spoke with Emerson in an interview this week and discovered that this indie author has a rather unique take on the downloading and sharing of ebooks all across the internet, especially the rampant pervasiveness of piracy.

Piracy is also running rampant with some statistics proclaiming that 30 % to 40 % of all e-books consumed are not purchased.

I suspect we'll see many such disconnects as books become full - fledged digital objects and applications — books that literally can't be read in certain countries, subpoenas on the pages people read, books that mysteriously drop content for some legal reason, books with viruses, books that die when a company dies, social books that abuse your expectations in some ways, not to mention rampant ebook piracy, unauthorized edits of a book, etc..

However, as subsidiaries of large media conglomerates, the executives who ran the big six had all been given their marching orders about the internet: DRM restrictions would be mandatory on all ebook sales, lest rampant piracy cannibalize their sales of paper books.

With a lawsuit ongoing between Sony and George «Geohot» Hotz over the latter's firmware exploit of the PS3 system, leaving it wide open for rampant piracy, the Japanese giant have taken the first steps towards repairing the damage, with today's firmware update 3.60 supposedly re-securing the PS3, patching up the gaping security holes Hotz and other hackers exploited to their advantage.