Forum Moderators: martinibuster
I have google alerts set up on my name, and found that someone has pirated a number of my books (I have books published by major publishers around the world). In fact, the BLOG in question, hosted at blogspot has at least 100+ pirated e-versions of major business books and audiobooks which it makes available through those file sharing services.
..but of course, the kicker is that the pirate is using adsense to make money from the pirated versions -- probably, in fact, more than I make as a royalty.
and using a Google property -- Blogspot, to do so.
I know this can be dealt with eventually (I'm not the copyright owner so I can't file a DMCA), but here, you have someone using google to finance and make money from illegal activities.
If this is not "doing evil", I'm really not sure what is in the online world.
You'd think that the adsense folks, so informed of what is massive piracy based on adsense, would be able to take a look and take action immediately.
...sigh.
This is indeed, a side effect of the adsense business model
This is a BIG target for the big boys to hunt, and these big boys WILL hunt virtually around the world.
That could be one reason why Google hasn't acted in the face of what you've portrayed as obvious large-scale criminal activity. For all we know, Google may be working with the authorities to help them prepare a case. If that's true, let's hope this thread doesn't attract the bad guys' notice!
