For readers of the
E-reads blog, there's never been any doubt how agent and E-reads founder Richard Curtis feels about ebook pirates. He doesn't like them. Now he's announced an initiative on behalf of E-reads authors and Curtis agency clients to use a third party security service, Muso TNT, to scan the darknet for pirated books and issue batch DMCA takedown notices. Here's the announcement:
http://ereads.com/2011/08/curtis-age...e-pirates.html
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How Muso TNT Works.
Using the Muso technology, legitimate content providers authorize the antipiracy service to launch search engine “spiders” to crawl over the Internet and detect unauthorized files. A significant feature is that the search criterion is by author, not by title. As the spiders locate pirated files, they store the results on a password-protected login page for review.
Lawful Takedowns
The author, publisher or agent may view the files to confirm that they are not authorized. Then the user clicks authorization for Muso to issue, to fileshare site administrators, batch takedown emails that are preformatted to adhere to Digital Millennium Copyright Act notice and takedown procedures. Within hours the files are taken down automatically.
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They've already begun issuing notices on behalf of clients.
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We recently tested the program. “The results exceeded our wildest dreams,” says technical director Anthony Damasco. “On Friday afternoon we identified some 3500 illegally shared files of titles by our authors and ordered them removed. It took me 45 minutes. By Monday just about every one of them had been taken down.”
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The service is also available, for a fee, to non-clients.
This will be an interesting story to watch.