Comments on: French survey: 95 percent of pirated e-books are NOT online in legal editions

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:12:40 +0000

Pirated pdf’s of books is crushing the publishing business. A major plus for Communists. Sites like library.nu/ifile.it and piratebay are the major ones. The sad thing is that library.nu/ifile.it is out of Ireland. I thought that Ireland was an ally of the US.

By: Mathias Daval

Mathias Daval — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:57:04 +0000

Yes, the study focused only on copyrighted titles in French published by French publishers.

PS: a note to the author of the article : my name is “Daval” and not “Duval”

By: Monica Wolf

Monica Wolf — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:45:32 +0000

Indeed. 6000 titles is laughable. Maybe they’re only looking in France or something.

By: Frode Aleksandersen

Frode Aleksandersen — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:48:15 +0000

PDF and comics? Sounds like it’s another case of checking the wrong places for pirated content. PDF has long been popular for technical material, but comics and manga are primarily distributed as jpg files in archives (lzh, rar and cbr for instance). Fiction can easily be found in torrents and on irc, and they’re usually distributed in lit, txt, rtf and html. There’s also a lot more of it than a measly 6000 titles, and the fact that they don’t even mention the existence of it sounds like they need to do better research. Either that, or it’s just a situation that’s peculiar to the French .

By: Jordi B.

Jordi B. — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:41:32 +0000

BTW, “BD” in the translated excerpt is short for “bande dessinée” or “comic-book” in English.

Yes, I am afraid we have the same situation in Spain, if not worse. Publishers can whine all they want about piracy, but it is them who should be ashamed for turning customers into pirates.

Personally, I buy the pbook and then grab a pirate copy. I have recently bought an Opticbook scanner to do the scans myself when there are none available.