For the publishing industry, digital piracy is the elephant in the room. We all want to believe that the shiny, digital future won’t be marred by rampant online piracy. But, says Redhammer’s Peter Cox, such optimism is naive.
Over a year ago, Peter appeared on Sky News (see below) to warn about book piracy on websites such as scribd.com. “What’s changed in the past year”, says Peter, is that Scribd now has the effrontery to charge for illegal downloads!”. You can watch Peter steal a book here - we hope the industry is paying attention.
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