Who has time to crack DRM and upload ebooks in various formats, often to premium (paid) accounts on storage sites?
Why students!
Take this one:
Location: Lost In Suburbia Occupation: Student Interests: Books
She uploaded 20 copyrighted novels about 16 hours ago (as of the time I am writing). Already, 132 illegal copies have been created (people have downloaded copies of these books).
This dishonest student's messages show that she has posted links to over 200 authors' novels, sometimes in her posts, she provides up to five different formats.
It worked for me. But I unloaded the RAR for you and posted individual links. See if that helps.
PRC
EPUB
PDF
MOBI
LIT A "+" is always appreciated! :)
She knows that what she is doing is wrong. That is why she uploads novels to whichever is her file-sharing site of choice in code... like this
She has commented on the site that links have been removed or disabled. Anyone with the intelligence to be pursuing higher education ought to have the wit to infer that either the authors or the publishers are complaining about the "sharing" of copyrighted novels.
After all, when a file is disabled, responsible hosting sites post this explanation
This file has been removed due to legal complaints.
Gleefully, she reups with a comment such as "Oops! All my (author's name) links were removed. Here's a new one:"
And "I checked all of my (author's name) links and all have been removed. So here is a new link that should work. (Sorry to post again. I couldn't edit the previous post.)"
This student is not only harming authors, publishers, editors, booksellers, and depriving her state, city, and the government of their fair share of income and sales taxes, but she is also, presumably, sponging on society for her education and for her health care coverage.
And, instead of studying for a useful degree and a productive career, she is reading sexually explicit romance novels.
What does she get from sharing? Her reward appears to be that a stranger posts a + sign on her Astatalk page.
She hints: "A "+" is always appreciated!"
Pathetic!
Of course, not all of those illegally duplicated and distributed novels would ever have sold. Some, however, will end up being sold on CDs on auction sites and enriching other pirates.
I've just revisited her file sharing home page. 159 copies have now been downloaded. That's 27 novels in the time I've taken to write this post.
159 copies. If this pirate were to be sued to the full extent of the law for every download for which she is responsible, just in the last 17 hours, that would be a fine of $150,000 x 159... approximately $24 million dollars.
She'd declare bankruptcy, of course. And all the world would be sorry for her.
Why students!
Take this one:
Location: Lost In Suburbia
Occupation: Student
Interests: Books
She uploaded 20 copyrighted novels about 16 hours ago (as of the time I am writing). Already, 132 illegal copies have been created (people have downloaded copies of these books).
This dishonest student's messages show that she has posted links to over 200 authors' novels, sometimes in her posts, she provides up to five different formats.
It worked for me. But I unloaded the RAR for you and posted individual links. See if that helps.
PRC
EPUB
PDF
MOBI
LIT
A "+" is always appreciated! :)
She knows that what she is doing is wrong. That is why she uploads novels to whichever is her file-sharing site of choice in code... like this
http://www.(filesharingsite).com/tryg...
She has commented on the site that links have been removed or disabled. Anyone with the intelligence to be pursuing higher education ought to have the wit to infer that either the authors or the publishers are complaining about the "sharing" of copyrighted novels.
After all, when a file is disabled, responsible hosting sites post this explanation
This file has been removed due to legal complaints.
Gleefully, she reups with a comment such as
"Oops! All my (author's name) links were removed. Here's a new one:"
And
"I checked all of my (author's name) links and all have been removed. So here is a new link that should work. (Sorry to post again. I couldn't edit the previous post.)"
This student is not only harming authors, publishers, editors, booksellers, and depriving her state, city, and the government of their fair share of income and sales taxes, but she is also, presumably, sponging on society for her education and for her health care coverage.
And, instead of studying for a useful degree and a productive career, she is reading sexually explicit romance novels.
What does she get from sharing? Her reward appears to be that a stranger posts a + sign on her Astatalk page.
She hints:
"A "+" is always appreciated!"
Pathetic!
Of course, not all of those illegally duplicated and distributed novels would ever have sold. Some, however, will end up being sold on CDs on auction sites and enriching other pirates.
I've just revisited her file sharing home page.
159 copies have now been downloaded. That's 27 novels in the time I've taken to write this post.
159 copies. If this pirate were to be sued to the full extent of the law for every download for which she is responsible, just in the last 17 hours, that would be a fine of $150,000 x 159... approximately $24 million dollars.
She'd declare bankruptcy, of course. And all the world would be sorry for her.