Amazon's Kindle launch in China has been plagued with problems, as the company seeks to stave off challenges related to
rampant piracy in the country that has made Chinese consumers unused to paying for digital content.
According to a new report, one of the most guilty countries of
rampant piracy in Europe, is the Netherlands.
Not exact matches
The fact is
piracy is
rampant in all forms of commerce.
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.
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.
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.
Many people claim that DRM prevents
rampant piracy but
in my experience it does no good at all.
In the end, with piracy so rampant in the country it won't be an easy job to get rid of it quickly and completel
In the end, with
piracy so
rampant in the country it won't be an easy job to get rid of it quickly and completel
in the country it won't be an easy job to get rid of it quickly and completely.
If what happened
in music with the
rampant piracy they experienced (where all sales essentially fell through the floor for a decade +) didn't kill the major labels, I don't understand why so many people seem to think that electronic publishing will kill book publishers.
In what has to be the winner of the Captain Obvious Award, new voices are speaking out against
rampant ebook
piracy.
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.
If
piracy was
rampant and there was no money
in writing then the things I think that would be free would be...
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.
In a country
rampant with digital
piracy from music to movies, hopefully whatever standard China adopts and creates will help protect publishers and content holders.
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..
To battle this, particularly
in piracy -
rampant China, Microsoft is «offering free upgrades to Windows 10 to all Windows users.»
Piracy is
rampant in Eastern Europe.
Weighing
in at a hefty 41.4 GB - a rumored non-3D version is only half that size - it's the first time a big PS3 release has found itself leaked online, mere months since George Hotz, aka Geohot, cracked the PS3's firmware, leaving it wide open for
rampant piracy.