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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:
Why was there no ready-made tools? It may well be that no one wanted to provide a tool that can be used to infringe copyright!
It has created a tool specifically for breaking the copyright law (and policy) at The Pirate Bay. It has systematised an invasion, on several occasions. It therefore constitutes a crime that was repeated. This is done for financial gain sake.
Sunde further added that TPB owns the copyright to its own database of torrents and quoted various points from its usage policy:
The Pirate Bay actually owns the copyright to its own database of torrents. And it may not engaged in any case - all under American copyright. In addition, The Pirate Bay a policy that specifies how it may utilize the site.
According to TorrentFreak, history shows that the piracy acts as a catalyst to promote book sales. So Sweden Publishers’ study is unreasonable and ambiguous. However The Pirate Bay is certainly going to fight for its property and has already asked them to provide additional information about the technical things, Sunde added:
Now, I expect that the police will go out and grab Kjell Bohlund or Eva Bonnier, chairman and vice chairman of the Swedish förläggareföreningen. But the question remains - is it OK to break the law because you are upset about what others are doing on the legal way?
Uhm, this was a quite weird blog post. I’m a CEO all of a sudden? We have american copyrights all of a sudden? We’re a COMPANY all of a sudden?
There so many things wrong in your blog post that i have no clue on where to start.. but well.. interesting to see how people perceive us.
Ooopz my mistake! thanx for pointing it out.