Comments on: BREIN Extends Anti-Piracy Activities To eBook Sector

By: Global Geek News Podcast #63

Global Geek News Podcast #63 — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:45:55 +0000

[...] BREIN extends anti-piracy activities to the eBook space [...]

By: Anonymous

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By: Antony Hopkins

Antony Hopkins — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:04:18 +0000

What’s piracy? We’re not pirates. We’re filesharers. “Piracy” is a word invented by the MAFIAA because it just sounds bad. It’s just propaganda.

But, real pirates do sink the seas, what we do is just to share the music we bought.

By: Tomas

Tomas — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:40:17 +0000

Most pirated eBooks are OCR scans anyway and contain some pretty weird errors. This one book I read from an OCR scan couldn’t pick up the word “the” and instead it always said “we”. It made for some rather difficult reading. A few others had pages missing and other issues.

Also, books are among the lowest selling items on ebay, many of which sell for under £1. I buy lots of books from there, I even got a few for about 10p. Pirating books is never going to be as popular as films and music unless the quality is vastly improved. Personally I find it hard to read books on the computer anyway.

I’d expect a lot of publishers to be more open minded about file sharing. After all, if you have a story to tell then you want as many people to read it as possible. File sharing could actually have a far bigger effect on the publishing industry than it did for local bands and local filmmakers getting themselves heard.

Authors are pretty much at the mercy of the publisher – if a publisher won’t take your book then you have no alternative. A filmmaker still needs the software to edit their films and an artist still needs the software to record and mix their tracks. Although this software is relatively cheap, for an author they don’t need any of this. They just post the .doc/.odf/.txt or whatever of their book and they are instantly published to hundreds of thousands of people for no cost whatsoever. Granted, they can pretty much forget any ideas of making money from it, but they wouldn’t if the publisher rejected them anyway.

By: Trelew

Trelew — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:34:37 +0000

Ebooks and PDFs of books been around for some time now, and are only now become popular because of the new tech toys like iPad and Ebook Readers. I’ve notice that most books being shared now will come with several formats rather just a PDF file.

As for the academics screaming so loud about it, if you didn’t overprice the damn things so much, you wouldn’t see already cash-strapped students turning to them.

I saw one student that was being threatened with expulsion for using a PDF format of her text book in class. The teacher said he would of normally ignore it but the various publishing corporations are putting pressure on post-secondary schools to threaten students with compliance.

Another example on how corporate greed is hurting society.

By: Brein comincia la caccia ai pirati di ebook

Brein comincia la caccia ai pirati di ebook — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:19:15 +0000

[...] destinata a salire parecchio, in ogni caso anche la famosa associazione anti-pirateria, Brein, ha iniziato un progetto pilota con la Publishers Association GAU, che durerà fino al 2011, per cercare di [...]

By: Zits

Zits — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:39:48 +0000

You can tuck a bookstore in a good size torrent. Poor BREIN…NOT!

By: kate128

kate128 — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:58:00 +0000

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By: Ninja

Ninja — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 04:23:06 +0000

lol, they are adding more failures to their portfolio.. What makes them believe that some failed war against general file sharing will win against the ebook niche?

By: B

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:11:29 +0000

The Dutch Pirate Party still needs help so they can get into parliament in June! They need donations + signatures. Check http://www.piratenpartij.nl/

It’s time to show BREIN and the MAFIAA who’s boss :P

By: FatGiant

FatGiant — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:54:18 +0000

I pitty those poor fellows that work in BREIN’s offices. Forced to deal with this. Forced to search for torrents. Forced to download them, only to take note of who else is doing it. (Do they delete them after?)

Poor guys. Forced to accuse their firends, their family, even themselves…

I hope they are paying them enough.

By: hmm

hmm — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:45:31 +0000

Some jokes for Brein? Lets see: Raisened^Brein, Insane in the membrein, Driving that train high with no brein, Lack of brein-cells leads to mental retardation..I dunno, you think of something better =/

By: C

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:22:11 +0000

And history repeats. “Oh noes! Low scale music piracy on Napster! We must sue sue sue!…oh shit, now it’s widespread? Boo hoo hoo, we must lobby congress/parliament/etc to make laws that trample civil liberties to benefit us!” “Oh noes! Low scale book piracy on torrents! We must…etc”

By: Pirate Home Page » BREIN Extends Anti-Piracy Activities To eBook Sector

Pirate Home Page » BREIN Extends Anti-Piracy Activities To eBook Sector — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:28:56 +0000

[...] As suggested in our recent article , 2010 may prove to be the year where eBooks make their real breakthrough into the mainstream. With their increasing popularity among the masses it is inevitable that eBooks will become more widely pirated online. Read More : BREIN Extends Anti-Piracy Activities To eBook Sector [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:37:29 +0000

Ebook are small. Just use Mute or Winy!

You can even use TOR and keep using your favorite p2p software!

Anonymous and no server for tracking or indexing to shudown!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:26:11 +0000

Go for it! Then we will include to the boycott the publishing industry.

These morons never learn.

By: Whatever

Whatever — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:52:06 +0000

BREIN only works for BREIN.

Never heard of GAU though, no wonder everything stays expensive, there are more organizations to be paid than artists.

By: wallace

wallace — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:36:34 +0000

Piracy of books would be far, far less if ebooks were reasonably priced: around US$ 5 for a novel and, say, $20 for a textbook for a university course.

By: open source

open source — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:12:38 +0000

Here is a open source e-book for you.
After much research I have written “The Free Software Guide”
Get it here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5374109/File-sharing%20guides%20and%20e-books/Free_Software_Guide._11.4.2010.pdf I have made this guide in order to support file-sharing.
It covers UseNet’s on page 10 and file-sharing in general since torrents may not be the only solution.
I would love if you could give me some feedback on it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:26:41 +0000

This is just DR.BREEN being assholes again. Book publishers aren’t the ones lobbying to shut down the internet, it’s the talentless but rich movie and music industries.

By: Twats

Twats — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:18:45 +0000

BREIN has a f++cking good business model, you must give it to them.

The only sad thing is that they don’t really care about piracy but only to get paid by labels, movie studios and now it seems publishing companies also.

F*** BREIN!

By: TerribleTony

TerribleTony — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:05:35 +0000

Only now? They’ve taken their time, what about all those poor authors who have been pirated mercilessly before BRIEN decided to milk their money too.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:32:36 +0000

BREIN is misspelled as BREN in the description.

By: Kruel Wurld

Kruel Wurld — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:26:53 +0000

Go to a library instead :)

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By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:03:27 +0000

why is sharing a paper book sharing but copying a ebook piracy

By: Maroan

Maroan — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:02:35 +0000

Requesting takes down of sites offering Ebooks could be tricky: Books authors own the rights to their works, not the publishers. So Brein could come in troubles here, if some authors allow their works to be shared.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:59:34 +0000

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By: Arjen Kamphuis

Arjen Kamphuis — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:42:25 +0000

Video of a debate between the head of BREIN and some scruffy hackers last summer at Hacking at Random can be viewed here: http://bit.ly/9fV6NP

By: CaptainSlow

CaptainSlow — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:40:34 +0000

eBooks are too small to be pirated using torrents anyway*, you need other sources for that.

*They can of course be torrented, just not in an efficient way.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:37:46 +0000

MediaSentry is definitely on the ebook prowl.

By: anon2

anon2 — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:36:24 +0000

so basically, they are going to ignore their customers as well, just like the movie/music industry are doing. why is it so much more appealing to get someone into court, get some sort of punishment imposed than offer what people ask for, ie make the stuff available for download at sensible prices, sensible speeds, decent quality and drm free from their own web sites? the mind boggles!!

By: anon

anon — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:52:02 +0000

Can someone recommend me a good ebook tracker? Looking mostly for text books that cost a fortune for my uni studies.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:45:48 +0000

Amusingly enough, no one asked the authors of the so-called “pirated” works about their work.

… Oh wait that’s how the mafia cartels work.

By: Armo

Armo — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:19:37 +0000

2 ?2-3

it’s Dr. Breen

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:16:46 +0000

Whever I read/hear BREIN i think of Dr. Brein from Half Life 2 :)

And above all, piracy prevails.

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:16:23 +0000

Whever I read/hear BRIEIN i think of Dr. Brein from Half Life 2 :)

And above all, piracy prevails.

By: Jefo

Jefo — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:03:26 +0000

In German, GAU means “Worst-case scenario” – i hope that will apply to them ;)