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You were plagiarized?! How did this come about? And could you please go more in-depth about the piracy situation? I was not aware e-books could be pirated. Please, elaborate.
I can only speak from experience, since plagiarism can happen in a lot of different contexts and ways. Back when I used to post my stories for free on Fictionpress.com, someone took one of my short stories and essentially copy-pasted it...except they replaced the names with the singers from One Direction. I contacted the site, showing them a link to my story with its time stamp & telling them that the story was plagiarized (literally a word for word copy) and that I wanted it removed. They complied.
Ebooks are pirated all the time. It's actually easier to pirate an ebook than it is to pirate an actual book (it's like mp3s vs. an actual CD). People take an ebook - Kindle, epub, PDF, or mobi- and they upload it to a site, where it is available for downloads that are not authorized by and do not compensate the author. I've had to get my work removed from Scribd twice, because someone uploaded it to the site from a PDF. The guy in charge of their copyright department was really sweet and did it super fast. I got it down within, like, an hour or two I think, the second time. Warez and torrents sites frequently trade in copyrighted material without permission of the author, and from what I've seen, some even make an economy of it: I saw one site that seemed to have a point system, where people received warez points for materials uploaded which they could trade for other materials.
Here's a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez
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You were plagiarized?! How did this come about? And could you please go more in-depth about the piracy situation? I was not aware e-books could be pirated. Please, elaborate.
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I can only speak from experience, since plagiarism can happen in a lot of different contexts and ways. Back when I used to post my stories for free on Fictionpress.com, someone took one of my short stories and essentially copy-pasted it...except they replaced the names with the singers from One Direction. I contacted the site, showing them a link to my story with its time stamp & telling them that the story was plagiarized (literally a word for word copy) and that I wanted it removed. They complied.Ebooks are pirated all the time. It's actually easier to pirate an ebook than it is to pirate an actual book (it's like mp3s vs. an actual CD). People take an ebook - Kindle, epub, PDF, or mobi- and they upload it to a site, where it is available for downloads that are not authorized by and do not compensate the author. I've had to get my work removed from Scribd twice, because someone uploaded it to the site from a PDF. The guy in charge of their copyright department was really sweet and did it super fast. I got it down within, like, an hour or two I think, the second time. Warez and torrents sites frequently trade in copyrighted material without permission of the author, and from what I've seen, some even make an economy of it: I saw one site that seemed to have a point system, where people received warez points for materials uploaded which they could trade for other materials.
Here's a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez
