Last week there was another incident of some asshole on Facebook openly asking on her Facebook page for links to pirate sites for e-books “because she’s poor and authors make enough.” I. Can’t. Even. Contrary to popular belief, most writers
WTF GooglePlay Books? You are ALLOWING pirates to operate!
This shitstain of a cuntnugget needs to go down: https://play.google.com/store/books/author?id=Dogukan+Akbulut ALL the books he has posted are ILLEGALLY POSTED. And I found out today, after discovering he’d posted at least one of mine, that authors have been sending takedown notices
WTFery – Adobe collecting user data via Digital Editions, malicious ebook code, & more.
From the “I can’t make this shit up” files comes a boneheaded revelation about Adobe’s Digital Editions 4, their epub app. Nate Hoffelder over on The Digital Reader blogged about verifying this privacy breach. The software is scraping info about the
Goodreads petition against piracy.
Did you know a Goodreads librarian can upload an e-book file to a book page? I found this out after discovering (thanks to a reader giving me a heads-up) that over a year ago, a Goodreads librarian had illegally uploaded
Another note on e-piracy.
Okay, for those of you who see auctions where the sellers claim to have resell rights to my e-books, listen up: THOSE ARE ILLEGAL AUCTIONS. Period. In fact, most auctions of fiction e-books are ILLEGAL. It doesn’t matter what their
Unsung hero in the piracy war.
Patricia McLinn is my new hero. (Or should I say heroine?) She decided to hit the file pirate sites where it really hurts–in their ad sales revenue. http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/a-call-to-protect-copyrights You have to read about how she got AT&T to sit up,
Publishing, Pirate Prattle, and Pay
There is this myth going around the pirate sites that they think published writers are rich, so if they steal files from them, it’s not hurting them, it’s only hurting “fat cat publishers.” Well, here’s another myth about to go
Fight Pirates – Earn Booty! (No, not THAT kind of booty!)
(Note: there is a contest behind all of this, you just have to wade through the rant to get to it! LOL) I hate pirates. Not the yargh matey, rape-pillage-plunder fellows. Those guys are okay. The pirates I despise with
The noise you hear is me smacking my head agains the table.
It’s now not enough I have to patrol pirate file sites for my stuff. Apparently I have to also now patrol sites where writers can post writing. I found a site where some nimrod was in the process of posting