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I saw the other day a post about book piracy in Anastacia Moore’s blog. She was rightly fuming, because, while checking out her video trailers, she noticed that someone was advertising on You Tube a link to receive free copies of said books.
A few days before that, my friend N.N. Light had kindly emailed me to let me know that she had found her book, “Princess of the Light” on a similar website, and that she had seen my work there as well.
Then came the news that Australia’s Copyright Agency has welcomed a decision by the British High Court requiring internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to websites hosting millions of pirated e-book titles. The decision means Britain’s five major ISPs – BT, Virgin Media, Sky, TalkTalk and EE – will be asked to block seven offshore-hosted websites within 10 working days.
The sites – AvaxHome…
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Many thanks for sharing, Chris! Looking forward to hearing your visitors’ take on this. Have a lovely Sunday 🙂
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Welcome Nicholas 😃
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Agree with Nicholas’ take. Ignore. It affect business but it does not affect YOUR business.
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Agreed, too. And whatever you do, DO NOT TRY TO DOWNLOAD YOUR BOOK off a pirate site. It’s not worth the hassle you’ll get with the malware, spyware, and potential ransom viruses you’ll get. You don’t need to know if they really have your book or not. 🙂
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And as for the people who do try to download these books—steal them, I mean—they deserve the viruses they’ll get. (And I didn’t mean to “like” my own reply—I hit the button accidentally while reading for “Reply” again.) 😀
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😃😃😃
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“…while reaCHing…”
Sigh.
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Oh, absolutely. It was not a real suggestion in my post that you do 😀
It’s just not worth the risk.
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