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Publishers tackle online piracy
Book publishers are stepping up efforts to stop the online piracy, reports the Chronicle of Higher Education. It comes as college students increasingly download illegal copies of textbooks online, employing the same file-trading technologies used to steal music and movies.
One website, called Textbook Torrents, promises more than 5,000 textbooks for download in PDF format, complete with the original textbook layout and full-color illustrations.
In response to such sites, the Association of American Publishers hired an outside law firm this summer to scour the Web for illegally offered textbooks. Already the firm has identified thousands of instances of book piracy and has sent legal notices to Web sites hosting the files demanding that they be removed.
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