Google "Profits From Pirated Textbooks" Publishers' Lawsuit ClaimsAndy Maxwell, 10 Jun 09:33 AM After years of criticism from rightsholders, punctua
 | After years of criticism from rightsholders, punctuated by incremental but significant adjustments to limit the appearance of pirated content in search results, Google is no longer continuously painted as siding with the enemy. Of course, Google has always argued it never did. The company's search engine acts as an indexer of content, content placed on the internet by others, Google reminded frustrated rightsholders. In response to properly formatted DMCA notices, links to infringing content were systematically taken down but, in another reminder playing on repeat, Google advised that removing links does nothing to take infringing content offline. With tens of millions of search results now systematically wiped out before they even appear, anti-piracy groups such as BREIN seem happy with the direction the relationship with Google is heading. Yet, a lawsuit filed in New York last week by Cengage Learning, Macmillan Learning, Macmillan Holdings, LLC; Elsevier Inc., Elsevier B.V., and M...Read More | Most people know all too well that downloading and sharing pirated content is against the law. Nonetheless, millions do so daily. There's no denying that piracy affects legal sales to some degree. That said, piracy is a complicated phenomenon and the reported effects are not always straightforward. Instead of trying to quantify the prospected losses in yet another study, researchers from Georgia Tech, Chapman University, and Carnegie Mellon University, posed a different question. Do price reductions for legal content have an effect on piracy? Price and Piracy Various surveys have indicated that many people cite high costs as a prime reason to pirate, so it's any area worth researching. Doing so elegantly is not easy, however, as researchers can't simply ask sellers to change their pricing. Luckily, a natural experiment with help from updated EU tax regulations provided an opportunity. In 2018, the European Union passed a directive that allowed member states to reduce the VAT on e...Read More |
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