How can copyright piracy of ebooks be stopped if the person lives outside the US?
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I’ve seen a lot of blogs by asians where they share download links for ebooks of today’s best selling authors. Based on the copyright law, this is illegal & results in 5 yrs imprisonment & $250,000 worth of fines. But how can they be stopped when they live abroad?
December 20th, 2009 at 7:54 am
Depends where they live. The US is far from the only country where copyright theft is illegal, and many countries have far stricter laws.
December 20th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
You report it to the publishers of the books and see if their legal departments can do anything. Get their contact address, and head it with Please send to legal department. Then have direct pages links to the sites for them.
There is, unfortunately not a lot one can do with international thieves and pimps of e-books. They ignore US copyright, and there’s not much respect for international copyright.
You can inform them that every “free” download is invisible to the writer’s publishers.
If the publishers think their writers aren’t making money, then they stop buying new books from them. The e-pirates can just blame themselves if their writer doesn’t do any new books.
It may not hurt the BIG best sellers, but midlisters like me–as few as 100 non-sales can put me out of business and back to slinging fast food at McDonalds.
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December 23rd, 2009 at 12:20 pm
There were Chinese versions of Harry Potter that were invented by some Chinese authors and were NOTHING like the real book.
Always buy from a reputable source. Tell all your friends to do the same.