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Friday Reads: How Music Got Free by Stephen Witt
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Friday Reads: How Music Got Free by Stephen Witt

Posted on June 26, 2015June 25, 2015 by Michael Sauers

From Amazon.com: “[How Music Got Free] has the clear writing and brisk reportorial acumen of a Michael Lewis book.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times What…

Harper Collins starts watermarking eBooks
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Harper Collins starts watermarking eBooks

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Michael Sauers

This week HarperCollins and anti-piracy company Digimarc announced the debut of a new ebook watermarking system to enable the identification of leak points in the…

I’m glad you found my book useful, but…
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I’m glad you found my book useful, but…

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Michael Sauers

Dear Lithuanian scholar who decided that one of my books was a worthy source for your research. However, did you realize that in the citation…

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Who’s stealing eBooks? (Infographic)

Posted on July 24, 2014January 27, 2017 by Michael Sauers

Source: http://www.whoishostingthis.com/

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This Week in Law 250: Slugs in the Popcorn

Posted on March 17, 2014 by Michael Sauers

Published on Mar 14, 2014 A Netflix for pirates, lapel cameras and copyright, banning handheld devices for kids, and more. Featuring librarian Katie Fortney, the…

Politics & Law

DMCA Take Down Tom Foolery

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Michael Sauers

Two recent headlines showing the utter preposterousness of automated DMCA takedown notices: HarperCollins Accuses Apple of eBook Piracy Due to so many news outlets reporting…

Politics & Law

Copyright: It Was Never About The Money, Stupid

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Michael Sauers

You can dismiss pirates as just being greedy and surely able to pay if they wanted, just as you could dismiss the colonist tea drinkers…

Politics & Law

How one band dealt with piracy

Posted on December 23, 2013December 29, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Update 12/29/13: Sadly, this has turned out not to be true. In the case of Iron Maiden, still a top-drawing band in the U.S. and…

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Unpublished Salinger Books Leaked to Private File-Sharing Site

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Michael Sauers

File-sharing sites and platforms of all kinds can be goldmines of unusual information and today fans of writer J. D. Salinger will be the ones…

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Students Found to Rely on Pirated Textbooks to Save Costs

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Michael Sauers

A study conducted by NetNames has revealed an unlikely source for the bulk of ebook piracy: students. The online security company further revealed that the…

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