Matrix Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has obtained a court order to prevent the managers of two Facebook groups from sharing copyright eBooks online. Four people, including a 49-year-old woman, have agreed to pay a settlement but face significant additional penalties if there are any future infringements. Pirated eBooks can be downloaded from dozens if not hundreds of places online. From torrent sites like The Pirate Bay and RARBG to so-called DDL (direct download) platforms, eBooks are both quick and easy to obtain. Of course, with the rise of social media, it’s now easier than ever for like-minded individuals to meet up for all kinds of activities, eBook sharing included. This hasn’t gone unnoticed by Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN, which says it has recently targeted a prolific group of sharers. Acting on an anonymous tip-off, BREIN says it was able to infiltrate two “private and secret” Facebook groups that were dedicated to the uploading and sharing of unlicensed eBooks. More than 8,000 titles were made available by the groups’ members – a total of 3,000 people across the two groups. Armed with its evidence, BREIN said it went to court and obtained an ex parte order, i.e one that didn’t involve both sides of the dispute to be heard. It subsequently made an agreement with the four managers of the groups, which requires them to cease-and-desist from their activities and pay a settlement to BREIN. “They signed a declaration of abstention and have now paid more than 6,000 euros to BREIN. If they go wrong again, this amount goes up to 10,000 euros plus 500 euros per illegally offered e-book,” BREIN says. According to the anti-piracy group, the managers of the Facebook groups acknowledged that their activities and those of their users are illegal via the published rules of the groups. “Sharing e-books is and remains illegal, that is a choice you make,” the managers reportedly said. BREIN says that one of the managers, a 49-year-old woman, was a prolific sharer in her own right, having personally upload 1,000 eBooks for download. While BREIN clearly takes this kind of unlawful sharing seriously, the anti-piracy group does point out that not every illegal download represents a lost sale. Instead, it highlights the existence of studies which indicate that the “so-called substitution” rate is around one lost sale per three illegal downloads. However, BREIN also points out that legal eBook platforms give potential purchasers the ability to sample parts of books before committing to buying them, so lost sales in the eBook sector are “probably higher” given the absence of the “sampling effect”. VIEW: Original Article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has obtained a court order to prevent the managers of two Facebook groups from sharing copyright eBooks online. Four people, including a 49-year-old woman, have agreed to pay a settlement but face significant additional penalties if there are any future infringements. Pirated eBooks can be downloaded from dozens if not hundreds of places online. From torrent sites like The Pirate Bay and RARBG to so-called DDL (direct download) platforms, eBooks are both quick and easy to obtain. Of course, with the rise of social media, it’s now easier than ever for like-minded individuals to meet up for all kinds of activities, eBook sharing included. This hasn’t gone unnoticed by Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN, which says it has recently targeted a prolific group of sharers. Acting on an anonymous tip-off, BREIN says it was able to infiltrate two “private and secret” Facebook groups that were dedicated to the uploading and sharing of unlicensed eBooks. More than 8,000 titles were made available by the groups’ members – a total of 3,000 people across the two groups. Armed with its evidence, BREIN said it went to court and obtained an ex parte order, i.e one that didn’t involve both sides of the dispute to be heard. It subsequently made an agreement with the four managers of the groups, which requires them to cease-and-desist from their activities and pay a settlement to BREIN. “They signed a declaration of abstention and have now paid more than 6,000 euros to BREIN. If they go wrong again, this amount goes up to 10,000 euros plus 500 euros per illegally offered e-book,” BREIN says. According to the anti-piracy group, the managers of the Facebook groups acknowledged that their activities and those of their users are illegal via the published rules of the groups. “Sharing e-books is and remains illegal, that is a choice you make,” the managers reportedly said. BREIN says that one of the managers, a 49-year-old woman, was a prolific sharer in her own right, having personally upload 1,000 eBooks for download. While BREIN clearly takes this kind of unlawful sharing seriously, the anti-piracy group does point out that not every illegal download represents a lost sale. Instead, it highlights the existence of studies which indicate that the “so-called substitution” rate is around one lost sale per three illegal downloads. However, BREIN also points out that legal eBook platforms give potential purchasers the ability to sample parts of books before committing to buying them, so lost sales in the eBook sector are “probably higher” given the absence of the “sampling effect”.
steven36 Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 They may be able to stop it on Fakenewsbook and other social media there fair game but still they never been able to stop Libgen witch even makes software you can install on Windows to download from there massive catalog . Always the copyright cartels be grasping for straws because they can never burn the broom . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrACKzONE Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 BREIN... waste of TIME!.... pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 13 minutes ago, CrACKzONE said: BREIN... waste of TIME!.... pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff If you ask me Facebook is too, don't you guys in the Netherlands have any forums to share your Dutch releases on? It don't make no sense dancing with the feds on social media . If you post on there releases sooner or latter you will get busted unless your country don't have laws against it . What happen in the Netherlands is sad they use to be pro piracy and it it was legal to pirate there .But that's what happens to countries that really don't have true Independence and belong to a Union . I use to use ips on vpn from Netherlands and other countries in the EU but after Article 13 i no longer do , because they censor the internet . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrACKzONE Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 Well... BREIN doesn't have any control about internet users that do downloading/uploading stuff.... the internet providers need their USERS to get their money too! INTERNET - UNDERWORLD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 6 minutes ago, CrACKzONE said: Well... BREIN doesn't have any control about internet users that do downloading/uploading stuff.... the internet providers need their USERS to get their money too! INTERNET - UNDERWORLD They some what do, even some years ago before Kick Ass got shut down they was targeting Dutch release groups , not long ago they targeting people uploading to Usenet . In the USA it been years since they busted a USA Release group even . Here mostly all they do is send out warnings and you buy a vpn and use a kill switch or buy a download service and that's the end of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhjohns Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 7 hours ago, Mach1 said: Sharing e-books is and remains illegal All this copyright sharing crap is B.S and a total waste of valuable time and resources. Totally fruitless. Let the people share! It actually generates sales. People have been sharing books, newspapers, records, tapes, and the list goes on and on for like ever. Let's just cut the crap. Actually my mama always told me I HAD to share. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 20 hours ago, dhjohns said: All this copyright sharing crap is B.S and a total waste of valuable time and resources. Totally fruitless. Let the people share! It actually generates sales. People have been sharing books, newspapers, records, tapes, and the list goes on and on for like ever. Let's just cut the crap. Actually my mama always told me I HAD to share. People still do offline , you can donate stuff to 2nd hand store as charity and write it off on your taxes and they can legally resell it used or you can sell it yourself . Offline if you give someone something its considered a gift but once you copy it and give it away or sell it its considered piracy if you keep the original copy . Back in the 80s sharing tapes were never legal but everyone did it . just like before they had all these legal music portals everyone used Napster then other p2p programs after it got shut done because Metallica sued them . Just like many other p2p programs had there day in court and was shut down after them. Now free and cheap legal music is everywhere people should not use these services other than to pirate from them , because paying for music just helps out the Record Labels the Artist sees very little money from Album sales , It don't help out the Artist they make most of there money from concerts if you want to support them go out and pay to see a live show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhjohns Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 1 hour ago, steven36 said: it's considered piracy if you keep the original copy What better way to share! You can give it away, and still have it. Any company/corporation/individual who posts to the internet should do so with the explicit knowledge that it will be shared. To think otherwise is just living a pipe-dream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 2 hours ago, dhjohns said: What better way to share! You can give it away, and still have it. Any company/corporation/individual who posts to the internet should do so with the explicit knowledge that it will be shared. To think otherwise is just living a pipe-dream. On the internet fire up a p2p client and share without paying for a vpn and pray you don't get your internet discounted or you don't get took to court. 98% of people on warez boards don't share at all there just leechers , if everyone shared i would never retired form uploading to filehost on the warez boards in 2011. Most people on boards are just out to use you for what they can get out of you and I woke up ! You have all kinds of friends as long as your the one sharing and risking your butt and they are just leeching. Back when I 1st came online there was no Warez Boards everyone shared via p2p and we didn't do it with web browsers ,VPNs was unheard of back then and if you got caught oh well . Most pirates today lost the plot they not sharing with the exception of p2p users . Most Admins on Warez Blogs have made millions of dollars and many uploaders on Warez Forms get paid to them its a job not sharing .You pirates today make me laugh you got sharing confused with making money and leeching . I miss the good old days when everyone really shared via p2p without using websites because there was no middle man ,but that was the past , unless they ever get rid of all the people who profit from it on the clearnet it want be much sharing happening again . That the reason the industry is so mad about its not fact we share its the fact pirates are profiting from it. Even in Russia if your a business and pirate they come down on you hard but if you're a home user doing it for fun they look the other way. Warez Blogs making money off releases have just about killed the software cracking scene i'm glad I got out of it ,My open source software just work while leechers chase cracks like a junkie . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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