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Digital Piracy- Student Name

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Print Books Are Target of Pirates on the Web

Digital Piracy is a growing problem word wide. It is the unauthorized use of copyrighted materials.  Specifically, digital piracy is the illegal distribution of copyrighted materials using digital technologies, such as the internet.  The unethical issue here is that the media providers are not paying for the rights to use or distribute the materials.  Many young adults are guilty of using programs and web sites such as Limewire and Napster to illegally download music, movies and games. However, a new trend has led to increased piracy of books.

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According to the article, authors have different views surrounding the topic.  Since the pirates do not have permission to post books online, they are not likely to tell the authors whose works they are stealing. Since authors do not know where or whether their work is being reproduced illegally, some have hired full time workers to track down and remove these copies. Most sites claim ignorance and take down the copyrighted material immediately, but authors still ask the question, why do it in the first place? The sites know that they do not have permission to reproduce many of the titles, and yet, they publish them anyway, and hope not to get caught.  Other authors see this as an opportunity to raise awareness about their publications. But mostly, authors have no objection to their books being available online. They just want to be paid for it.

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I, like many others, have downloaded media from the internet and made copies of CDs to save money. I also realize that by doing so, I am cheating a musician, a record company, and a retailer.  I have not downloaded any books for free, but the same concept applies. By taking advantage of an authors' work for free, the author, publisher, and intermediaries are losing money that they should have received on sales. I know these things, and I know it is wrong. But it is impossible to police all digital pirates. It would be much simpler, in my opinion, to sell limited distribution rights to the pirating sites.

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Rich, M. (2009, May 11). Print books are target of pirates on the web. The New York Times, Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/technology/internet/12digital.html

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