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Book sales are down significantly, and publishers say it is difficult to determine whether electronic piracy is denting sales.
For now, electronic piracy of books does not seem as widespread as what hit the music world, when file-sharing services like Napster threatened to take down the whole industry.
By pressing its claim, trade lawyers said, Antigua could set a precedent for other countries to sue the United States for unfair trade practices, potentially opening the door to electronic piracy and other dubious practices around the world.
This brings us to the eBook's principal drawback: NuvoMedia's publishing model, which is cleverly designed to prevent the electronic piracy of copyrighted works, but which is also being used to squeeze big bucks from electronic book buyers.
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Nonetheless, electronic book piracy appears to have little impact on the industry's bottom line, according to publishers.
Some publishing industry officials say the electronic Potter piracy may be a perverse sign that the public is finally acquiring a taste for e-books.
That sentiment feels especially prevalent in electronic dance music, which, at its best, represents counterculture, sonic innovation and the unsupervised flow of music on the Internet — or, piracy.
The effort will also include a crackdown on piracy of electronic journals, more effective rules for halting Internet piracy, and a crackdown on landlords who rent space to counterfeiters of products like footwear and apparel.
The Russian, Dmitri Sklyarov, was arrested last Monday at a computer hacker convention in Las Vegas, where he made a presentation about the security flaws in the encryption software, like Adobe's, used to prevent the piracy of electronic books.
The chapter explores data collection on the Web, censorship, electronic publishing, social division, copyrights, patents, piracy, and other legal issues of IT and e-commerce.
But there are grander threat vectors looming: crimes such as electronic bank robberies, digitally enabled high-seas piracy and cyberattacks against electrical grids are not science fiction premises; rather, they are real crimes that will only grow more common.
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