Book and P2P - help needed

Leto · 07-20-2005, 04:39 PM

Hello,

I've got stuck with a problem here. I have to write an article about P2P (aka downloading networks as Kazaa or BitTorrent) and books/comics. For this I need figures of it, contacts infos from editors and comments from authors/readers.

So please post your thoughts here and/or PM me about it.

Thanks a lot in advance for any help you could provide.
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Princess Ivy · 07-20-2005, 09:47 PM

sorry sweetie, kazza was full of spyware, i couldn't use it. haven't used the others.

Alexa · 07-21-2005, 01:14 AM

Sorry, Leto. I avoid them too.

Anyway, here you have a link, possible useful for BitTorrent:

http://dessent.net/btfaq/#links

Or Bram Cohen blog:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/bramcohen/20140.html

CV Brian Dessent: http://www.dessent.net/resume/

Leto · 07-21-2005, 09:20 AM

Girls, I don't ask if you use P2P software, but what do you think of downloading books instead of buying them in a regular shop (and without copyright for the writer).
Thanks anyway for the link, Alexa, I'll have a look at them.

Princess Ivy · 07-21-2005, 02:30 PM

Hmm, I don't like it. Books are very personal things to me, like unidies. I like to be able to hold them and page back, looking for pasages. There are two reasons that i don't download them, 1. it's very impersonal and 2. i find it very difficult to read a novel off a computer screen. When I work on my book, i have to print copies.
As to the copyrite, well, as a writer it really blows.

Alexa · 07-25-2005, 05:06 PM

I bought an e-book (the end of Hobb's series as I was desperate to read the end) and downloaded free ones. I prefer to have the book in my hands. If you have to read hundreds of pages on your computer it's really tiresome.

Regarding the copyright, well, it's the same thing like music and DVD pirating, isn't it ?

Leto · 07-25-2005, 05:47 PM

It is. The first article is done and should be online (at www.01net.com, sorry Ivy the site is in French) anytime soon.
And I'll have to do an interview with an author on this topic when I'll be back from my vacation. Any suggestion ?

Princess Ivy · 07-25-2005, 06:13 PM

i'd suggest that you speak to someone who only publishes online and someone who doesn't, get the oposing views.

Leto · 07-25-2005, 06:16 PM

Problem, the boss want a famous author, so I think I'll go for Harlan Ellison or Robert Silverberg. The former has already have a problem with P2P and the latter pubish both online and offline (and the boss likes his work). Or maybe I'll try for Stephen King.
Other suggestions ?

Leto · 07-25-2005, 07:43 PM

OK, the first article is up now :
http://www.01net.com/editorial/28528...-peer-to-peer/

Quote:

Originally Posted by babelfish translation

[ ILLEGAL DOWNLOADING ]
Harry Potter victim of the peer-to-peer wizards
Just after its exit, the sixth volume of the adventures of the small wizard was already available in illegal downloading on many networks.

Stéphanie Chaptal , 01net.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince free on your computer right after its exit in bookshop? No magic here, but a simple illegal downloading of book. After the video and the music, the literature could become well a new hunting ground for the pirates of the peer-to-peer.

Less than one day after its official world exit (on July 16 at midnight), the book was entirely scanned and diffused it on the various networks of peer-to-peer. Two days after, the first translations in French and Spanish were already available.

And the best-seller of J.K. Rowling is only the latest to date of the books thus diffused illegally. Without reaching the same density as for musical or cinematographic works, the networks of peer-to-peer (Kazaa, BitTorrent, Gnutella, SoulSeek, Ares) abound in recent books - with formats pdf or text - distributed without the agreement of their author.

The publishers react little

Thus, a fast search for a few minutes Sunday July 17 brought back 95 specimens of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code in six different languages, 231 specimens of the novels of Isaac Asimov and 538 of those of J.K. Rowling.

This phenomenon is not recent. In 2000, the writer of science fiction Harlan Ellison brought a united lawsuit with AOL and a Net surfer which distributed free its books on Usenet by using the services of the supplier of access. After four years of procedure, the business was regulated with friendly by the withdrawal of the texts of this network.

Except this particular case, the publishers seem not very in a hurry to react. Fleuve Noir is not estimated concerned by this phenomenon, in spite of the significant presence on the networks peer-to-peer of titles of science fiction or San Antonio (which it publishes). At Gallimard Youth (for Harry Potter), one was not even aware of the existence of the phenomenon. As for the national Publishers union, its spokesman estimates that "the hacking on Internet started with the book, ten years ago. Since, we have the impression that all is calm. But we do not have any figure above ". Like the industry of the disc a few years ago, the world of the edition chose a wait and see position.

Sorry for the somewhat erratic syntax in english, but I don't have time to do a real translation of my work.