I know that the comics industry had some qualms about how it would affect the market, because their consumers are the ones most likely to pick up the Kindle, and go out and start
sharing pirated content.
Not exact matches
The
content posted on these video -
sharing sites, called «tube sites» by the industry, is a mixture of illegally
pirated material, legally licensed material and amateur performances.
The following data shows that typical
pirate age is 18 - 29, these are the young tech savvy population who use free tools, hacks available online to
share and
pirate content.
The bulk of the
content out there is
pirated from file
sharing websites or Bittorrent.
The bulk of the
content out there is
pirated from file
sharing websites or Bit - torrent.
The person who
shares content illegally without permission of the owner can be referred as «
pirates».
So the
pirates strip out the DRM and continue
sharing files illegally, and the actual customer (who we as
content creators should be bending over backwards for) is annoyed, limited in how they can use the music or e-book they purchased, and sometimes has to buy it again just because they got a new computer or e-book reader.
Hear the stories and steel yourselves for new challenges as Rare's
shared world
pirate adventure receives its first
content update.
Hear the stories and steel yourselves for new challenges in the first
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shared world
pirate adventure.
Peer -2-Peer website, The
Pirate Bay, has been the flagship for years in providing a platform through which users can
share content, whether it's their own or someone else's.
Rupert Murdoch and his colleagues, not
content with grossing billions of dollars on their blockbuster movies have decided to spent some of those billions to lobby congress to try and get legislation passed that would give them the ability to more quickly (and with minimal due process) shut down file
sharing sites that they think are hosting
pirated content.
The copyright file -
sharing cases are led by a few
content producers that have been aggressive about pursuing
pirates, including Voltage Pictures and porn studio Malibu Media.
A District Court in Stockholm, Sweden, last week ruled against an international group of
content providers who sought to force a local Internet service provider to block The
Pirate Bay, a file -
sharing site, said lawyers for the plaintiffs.
It creates an ecosystem in which
content creators earn money from file
sharing rather than losing it to
pirates.