{"id":4804,"date":"2010-02-20T12:08:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T17:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4804"},"modified":"2010-02-20T12:10:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T17:10:38","slug":"more-perspective-on-ebook-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4804","title":{"rendered":"More Perspective on eBook Piracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Guardian.co.uk&#8217;s<\/strong> <em><strong>Books Blog<\/strong><\/em> has an excellent eBook Piracy perspective piece entitled: <strong><a title=\"Who's afraid of digital book piracy.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/booksblog\/2010\/feb\/18\/digital-book-piracy-copyright\" target=\"_self\">&#8220;Who&#8217;s afraid of digital book piracy?&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> It&#8217;s a well-written article that manages to dispel some of the hysteria surrounding the topic by applying old-fashioned common sense and a bit of research.<\/p>\n<p>Inflammatory notions like piracy are often brought up by corporate thinkers as a method of crow-barring public opinion into alignment with company aspirations for market dominance.\u00c2\u00a0(War on eBook Pirates any one? <em>Please. Please DRM my eBooks so pirates can&#8217;t have their way with them!<\/em>) There is a threat, no doubt, but as you&#8217;ll see from this article it is a\u00c2\u00a0<strong>gecko<\/strong> compared to the publishing world&#8217;s perceived\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Godzilla<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian.co.uk&#8217;s Books Blog has an excellent eBook Piracy perspective piece entitled: &#8220;Who&#8217;s afraid of digital book piracy?&#8221; It&#8217;s a well-written article that manages to dispel some of the hysteria surrounding the topic by applying old-fashioned common sense and a bit of research. Inflammatory notions like piracy are often brought up by corporate thinkers as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=4804\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4804"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4811,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions\/4811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}