Unmasking a Digital Pirate on Amazon

[JustaSCOUNDREL]

I just read about digital piracy on Amazon. It is in the news section on Lit. Lots of surprising information.


http://www.fastcompany.com/1810943/amazon-piracy-copyright-kindle-sopa-pipa?partner=gnews

Mike

 

[sr71plt]

An interesting point, I think, for those who denigrate e-booking for money is to note that the article reveals that $560 was made off of 187 copies of one of the pirated works. It cost very little to produce the book, if it was done sensibly. This off of only one title for only a brief period. So, who's talking only cigarette money anymore?

 

[estragon]

I wrote a story wherein a Chinese hacker was making not only cigarette money from stories stolen from Lit, (Marlboro Greens) but buying cases of German trockenbeerenauslen, and those ain't cheap.

But it was you, sr71plt, I think, who said that free sites like Lit are the thieves' shopping cart. And you and I and everyone else who posts here are busy filling them.

We've really beaten this to death. Amazon will pull stolen merchandise but won't disgorge their piece of the action. They'll just tell you to pursue the thief. As my character the Chinese hacker Huang Meili said in "The Sting", "Even when her theft was discovered, who cared? Let the dumb Americans chase the air!" And of course that goes for our non-US writers as well.