Widespread of book piracy is noted in Sweden according to the analysis-based report submitted by the Swedish book publishers organization. The organization says that the act of copyright infringement is quiet devastating as it is adversely effecting the income growth of booksellers. But the most astonishing part of the story is, the Sweden publishers illegally used The Pirate Bay’s database that is actually violating BitTorrent’s privacy law.
The publisher’s organization is claiming in its report that 85% of the best-selling books in Sweden are available on The Pirate Bay. They had coded a specialized tool to scrape TPB database for book titles. Apparently publishers’ claims and frustration does make sense but their technique to gather data illegally by giving a lame excuse about the unavailability of ready-made tools is highly inappreciable and TPB has full rights to take action against such kind of acts. Co-founder Peter Sunde wrote on his blog that it is done for commercial purpose:
