Whilst a number of these regulations, such as the one
about preventing piracy, can be seen as good and a step forward, the majority of regulations are seen as bad.
Learn about how to be careful with your eBook files to
help prevent piracy prior to your book launch.
One of the biggest factors is that it is digitally encrypted and nobody has managed to crack the DRM system,
which prevents piracy.
Well, this is one way to do it: Germany's Fraunhofer Institute is working on a new ebook DRM dubbed SiDiM that would
prevent piracy by changing the actual text of a story, swapping out words to make individualized copies that could be tracked by the original owner of the ebook.
As mentioned in a few other comments, it's inherently anti-consumer, and it's also pretty ineffective
at preventing piracy anyway.
One fallacy in the publishing industry is that artificial layers of protection like DRM encryption
actually prevent piracy, but publishers like Tor have spoken out and stated that it is simply not true.
The plan was by Android 4.1 to allow apps to be encrypted when purchased from the Play Store (
thus preventing piracy), and disabling App2SD was required for that to happen.
But here's the problem with DRM: it generally does
n't prevent piracy, since almost all forms of DRM have been hacked, and it just ends up annoying legitimate, paying customers.
Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto told Mashable that this move is an effort to provide security for the game,
i.e. prevent piracy.
The association says blockchain and other hypertext software systems «supercede copyright protection» and
prevent piracy by providing «indisputable» proof of ownership.
A new study from researchers at Duke and Rice University finds out that DRM is actually not effective
at preventing piracy and may cause more harm than good.
Or when the only effort made to stop /
prevent piracy is to chastise.
By providing features to support a wide range of scenarios: give eBooks away for free as a marketing tool, automatically link eBook and print editions to enhance discovery and provide more options to readers, and offer optional copy - protection (DRM) to
prevent piracy and unlicensed distribution.
While lending has been a concern for the publishers in terms of trying to
prevent piracy and protect the interests of the authors, there didn't seem to be this much fighting over ebook lending until OverDrive became compatible with Kindle e-readers.
Tomorrow I'll talk about a romance topic that's near and dear to all our hearts: Why there is no magic button (to
prevent piracy).
This is JankoRoettgers at paidContent in New ebook DRM will change the text of a story to
prevent piracy:
Some publishers will provide a link to read your ARC on a protected website to
prevent piracy.
One of the primarily reasons that the ebook market was so fragmented was because there wasn't adequate encryption to
prevent piracy.
Some Japanese publishers have tried and most initiatives have failed as they have done poor market research (mainly not understanding international purchasing habits, poor marketing, or even worse have blindly believed previous eBook booms to include similar sales for manga or comics in general); while others have simply had their stances thaw out hoping to gain revenue streams or to
prevent piracy.
Essentially, Bilbary transferred all of the power — and the responsibility to
prevent piracy, publishers» chief concern over ebook lending — back to the publishers.
I am merely pointing out the fact that making the digital window larger than it already is, is not a viable way to protect profits and
prevent piracy.
Unfortunately, registering your unpublished ms. with the copyright office won't do anything to
prevent piracy.
Amy Ross of Vitrium finally explained, «There are no perfect systems to
prevent piracy, because the stronger the protection, the harder the product is to use.
Each copier edition is watermarked and printed with the name of the store in order to
prevent 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.
Content distribution platforms like Google should be developing proper tools to
prevent piracy.
As we mentioned, Amazon is the odd man out with its MOBI / AZW format that it uses to encrypt books to
prevent piracy.
Remember, they — along with the other Big 5 publishers — contend that one of the major costs of e-books is the application of DRM which is necessary in their eyes to
prevent piracy.
DRM is attached at both levels to
prevent piracy.
Do not rely on this to
prevent piracy.
While Amazon was the subject of doing nothing to
prevent piracy by distributing illegal content on Amazon China, Apple's mishandling of pirated content was even worse.
Its purpose is generally noble:
prevent piracy (unauthorized copying and distribution of copyrighted material) so that the content creators (authors, musicians, publishers) can earn the money they deserve for their work.
DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, and it's a type of copy protection that many publishers and retailers add to e-books in order to
prevent piracy (unauthorized copying and distribution).
-LSB-...] questions I get asked when speaking on digital publishing is how to
prevent piracy.
One of the most common questions I get asked when speaking on digital publishing is how to
prevent piracy.
DRM technology has the purpose of controlling the use of digital content after it has been sold, in order to
prevent piracy or use of the goods in other ways than intended by the copyright holder.
DRM is not an effective way of
preventing piracy, but it IS an effective way of locking law - abiding customers into a single distributor's proprietary platform — and, more cynically, leaving publishers at that single distributor's mercy.