#bookpiracy — Public Fediverse posts

😆 Ah yes, because clearly the greatest threat to society is a robot named Claude reading pirated books. 📚💰 Now, $1.5B will definitely teach those AI models a lesson — maybe next they'll start streaming pirated movies too! 🍿🎥
https://apnews.com/article/ai-anthropic-copyright-settlement-claude-books-bartz-74b140444023898aeba8579b6e9f0d63 #robotthreat #AIregulations #piracyissues #bookpiracy #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

😆 Ah yes, because clearly the greatest threat to society is a robot named Claude reading pirated books. 📚💰 Now, $1.5B will definitely teach those AI models a lesson — maybe next they'll start streaming pirated movies too! 🍿🎥
https://apnews.com/article/ai-anthropic-copyright-settlement-claude-books-bartz-74b140444023898aeba8579b6e9f0d63 #robotthreat #AIregulations #piracyissues #bookpiracy #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

TorrentFreak: Major Publishers Sue ‘WeLib’, a Pirate Site Built on Anna’s Archive Code. “Less than a month after a New York court issued a default judgment against shadow library Anna’s Archive, thirteen major publishers have sued WeLib. The publishers characterize WeLib as a young but popular pirate site that was largely copied from Anna’s Archive. The site is allegedly used by tech […]

TorrentFreak: Major Publishers Sue ‘WeLib’, a Pirate Site Built on Anna’s Archive Code. “Less than a month after a New York court issued a default judgment against shadow library Anna’s Archive, thirteen major publishers have sued WeLib. The publishers characterize WeLib as a young but popular pirate site that was largely copied from Anna’s Archive. The site is allegedly used by tech […]

News Summary: Authors Guild Report Finds Only 25% of Readers Paid for Their Last Book

A new Authors Guild report has reached a stark conclusion: most readers are not paying for the books they read. To put it bluntly, that would seem to be the conclusion of a report from the Authors Guild. The report is dated December 2025, but the press release only came out in the last week, suggesting that some crunching and considering has been going on in the interim. I'll have a look at the more noteworthy findings and what they suggest for us as authors (Publishers Weekly's headline on the piece clearly cites a connection to declining author incomes), but first I want to situate this somewhat.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/authors-guild-report/

#audiobookgrowth #authorincome #AuthorsGuild #bookpiracy #digitallibraries

News Summary: Authors Guild Report Finds Only 25% of Readers Paid for Their Last Book

A new Authors Guild report has reached a stark conclusion: most readers are not paying for the books they read. To put it bluntly, that would seem to be the conclusion of a report from the Authors Guild. The report is dated December 2025, but the press release only came out in the last week, suggesting that some crunching and considering has been going on in the interim. I'll have a look at the more noteworthy findings and what they suggest for us as authors (Publishers Weekly's headline on the piece clearly cites a connection to declining author incomes), but first I want to situate this somewhat.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/authors-guild-report/

#audiobookgrowth #authorincome #AuthorsGuild #bookpiracy #digitallibraries

Courthouse News: Authors, publishers near final approval of $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement. “A $1.5 billion settlement over claims AI developer Anthropic pirated hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books to train its large language models inched toward final approval Thursday.”

Courthouse News: Authors, publishers near final approval of $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement. “A $1.5 billion settlement over claims AI developer Anthropic pirated hundreds of thousands of copyrighted books to train its large language models inched toward final approval Thursday.”

TorrentFreak: Publishers Seek $19.5 Million and Domain Takedown Order Against Anna’s Archive. “A group of high-profile publishing companies is seeking a $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna’s Archive. The proposed order comes with an injunction that would compel more than twenty named international domain registries, hosts, and service providers, including Cloudflare and […]

TorrentFreak: Publishers Seek $19.5 Million and Domain Takedown Order Against Anna’s Archive. “A group of high-profile publishing companies is seeking a $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna’s Archive. The proposed order comes with an injunction that would compel more than twenty named international domain registries, hosts, and service providers, including Cloudflare and […]

TorrentFreak: Major Publishers Sue Anna’s Archive Over ‘Staggering’ Copyright Infringement, Seek Injunction. “A coalition of thirteen major publishers, including Penguin Random House, Elsevier, and HarperCollins, filed a new lawsuit against Anna’s Archive. The publishers allege the shadow library is facilitating “staggering” levels of piracy. While the site’s owners are not likely to […]

TorrentFreak: Major Publishers Sue Anna’s Archive Over ‘Staggering’ Copyright Infringement, Seek Injunction. “A coalition of thirteen major publishers, including Penguin Random House, Elsevier, and HarperCollins, filed a new lawsuit against Anna’s Archive. The publishers allege the shadow library is facilitating “staggering” levels of piracy. While the site’s owners are not likely to […]

TorrentFreak: Anna’s Archive Loses .LI Domain As Legal Pressure Mounts. “Anna’s Archive lost its .li domain a few hours ago, likely due to legal pressure. The shadow library’s domain name was outright deleted instead of suspended. Whether the domain registrar or registry is responsible is unknown, but the latter seems more plausible. Anna’s Archive was briefly down to one remaining domain […]

TorrentFreak: Anna’s Archive Loses .LI Domain As Legal Pressure Mounts. “Anna’s Archive lost its .li domain a few hours ago, likely due to legal pressure. The shadow library’s domain name was outright deleted instead of suspended. Whether the domain registrar or registry is responsible is unknown, but the latter seems more plausible. Anna’s Archive was briefly down to one remaining domain […]

Ars Technica: Microsoft deletes blog telling users to train AI on pirated Harry Potter books. “Following backlash in a Hacker News thread, Microsoft deleted a blog post that critics said encouraged developers to pirate Harry Potter books to train AI models that could then be used to create AI slop.”

Ars Technica: Microsoft deletes blog telling users to train AI on pirated Harry Potter books. “Following backlash in a Hacker News thread, Microsoft deleted a blog post that critics said encouraged developers to pirate Harry Potter books to train AI models that could then be used to create AI slop.”

News Summary: Italian Piracy Report Shows University Students Lead Downloads; AI Content Marketplaces Emerge

While the focus for ALLi's news is the Anglophone marketplace, it is often the case that stories from other territories are of direct interest. And that's the case with this week's first story, looking at a recent report from Italy. Thanks to Publishing Perspectives for highlighting this.
The post News Summary: Italian Piracy Report Shows University Students Lead Downloads; AI Content Marketplaces Emerge appeared first on The Self-Publishing Advice Center.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/italian-piracy/

#AIcontentmarketplace #Amazon #bookpiracy #copyright #Italy

News Summary: Italian Piracy Report Shows University Students Lead Downloads; AI Content Marketplaces Emerge

While the focus for ALLi's news is the Anglophone marketplace, it is often the case that stories from other territories are of direct interest. And that's the case with this week's first story, looking at a recent report from Italy. Thanks to Publishing Perspectives for highlighting this.
The post News Summary: Italian Piracy Report Shows University Students Lead Downloads; AI Content Marketplaces Emerge appeared first on The Self-Publishing Advice Center.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/italian-piracy/

#AIcontentmarketplace #Amazon #bookpiracy #copyright #Italy

Around the Book World: Monday, February 16, 2026

Publishing analyst Carlo Carrenho kicks off the week with a review of the headlines from across the international publishing world.
The post Around the Book World: Monday, February 16, 2026 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/02/around-the-book-world-monday-february-16-2026/

#BookPiracy #bookdao #EDRLab #Germany #GoRead

Around the Book World: Monday, February 16, 2026

Publishing analyst Carlo Carrenho kicks off the week with a review of the headlines from across the international publishing world.
The post Around the Book World: Monday, February 16, 2026 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/02/around-the-book-world-monday-february-16-2026/

#BookPiracy #bookdao #EDRLab #Germany #GoRead

Report Suggests Piracy Accounts for Nearly a Third of the Italian Book Market, with Mounting Concern Over AI

For the first time, this year’s survey addressed a new element of the piracy threat—the “difficult-to-quantify losses caused by the use of AI-generated summaries and condensations of books.”
The post Report Suggests Piracy Accounts for Nearly a Third of the Italian Book Market, with Mounting Concern Over AI appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/02/report-suggests-piracy-accounts-for-nearly-a-third-of-the-italian-book-market-with-mounting-concern-over-ai/

#AI #AIAct #AssociazioneItalianaEditori #BookPiracy #Europe

Report Suggests Piracy Accounts for Nearly a Third of the Italian Book Market, with Mounting Concern Over AI

For the first time, this year’s survey addressed a new element of the piracy threat—the “difficult-to-quantify losses caused by the use of AI-generated summaries and condensations of books.”
The post Report Suggests Piracy Accounts for Nearly a Third of the Italian Book Market, with Mounting Concern Over AI appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/02/report-suggests-piracy-accounts-for-nearly-a-third-of-the-italian-book-market-with-mounting-concern-over-ai/

#AI #AIAct #AssociazioneItalianaEditori #BookPiracy #Europe

Don't the major book publishers realize that each court injunction and seizure incentivizes book pirates to distribute books using more sophisticated file sharing technologies that are resistant to censorship and surveillance?
#books #piracy #copyright #bookpublishers #copyrightinfringement #shadowlibraries #bookpiracy #filesharing #bookdownloads #writers #bittorrent #annasarchive #libgen #zlibrary #tor #i2p #privacy #censorship #surveillance

Don't the major book publishers realize that each court injunction and seizure incentivizes book pirates to distribute books using more sophisticated file sharing technologies that are resistant to censorship and surveillance?
#books #piracy #copyright #bookpublishers #copyrightinfringement #shadowlibraries #bookpiracy #filesharing #bookdownloads #writers #bittorrent #annasarchive #libgen #zlibrary #tor #i2p #privacy #censorship #surveillance

A Potential Settlement in the Anthropic AI-Training Lawsuit

Proliferating piracy' and AI-training on copyrighted content: The AAP reports a possible settlement in the California case.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/08/a-potential-settlement-in-the-anthropic-ai-training-lawsuit/

#AI #Anthropic #ArtificialIntelligence #AssociationofAmericanPublishers #BookPiracy
@indieauthors

A Potential Settlement in the Anthropic AI-Training Lawsuit

Proliferating piracy' and AI-training on copyrighted content: The AAP reports a possible settlement in the California case.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/08/a-potential-settlement-in-the-anthropic-ai-training-lawsuit/

#AI #Anthropic #ArtificialIntelligence #AssociationofAmericanPublishers #BookPiracy
@indieauthors

Copyright and Piracy: Publishers Coordinate on the Anthropic Lawsuit

In a fast-moving and potentially influential class action suit of AI developer Anthropic, the AAP supports publishers' preparation.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/08/copyright-and-piracy-publishers-coordinate-on-the-anthropic-lawsuit/

#AI #Anthropic #ArtificialIntelligence #AssociationofAmericanPublishers #BookPiracy
@indieauthors

Copyright and Piracy: Publishers Coordinate on the Anthropic Lawsuit

In a fast-moving and potentially influential class action suit of AI developer Anthropic, the AAP supports publishers' preparation.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/08/copyright-and-piracy-publishers-coordinate-on-the-anthropic-lawsuit/

#AI #Anthropic #ArtificialIntelligence #AssociationofAmericanPublishers #BookPiracy
@indieauthors

Interview: Niels Famaey on Fighting Piracy in Belgium

The Flemish Publishers' director says, 'You cannot steal publications and use them for your own gain and commercial purposes.'
The post Interview: Niels Famaey on Fighting Piracy in Belgium appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/08/interview-niels-famaey-on-fighting-piracy-in-belgium/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Belgium #BookPiracy #Copyright
@indieauthors

Interview: Niels Famaey on Fighting Piracy in Belgium

The Flemish Publishers' director says, 'You cannot steal publications and use them for your own gain and commercial purposes.'
The post Interview: Niels Famaey on Fighting Piracy in Belgium appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/08/interview-niels-famaey-on-fighting-piracy-in-belgium/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Belgium #BookPiracy #Copyright
@indieauthors

The Guardian: Group of high-profile authors sue Microsoft over use of their books in AI training. “A group of authors has accused Microsoft of using nearly 200,000 pirated books to create an artificial intelligence model, the latest allegation in the long legal fight over copyrighted works between creative professionals and technology companies.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/27/the-guardian-group-of-high-profile-authors-sue-microsoft-over-use-of-their-books-in-ai-training/

The Guardian: Group of high-profile authors sue Microsoft over use of their books in AI training. “A group of authors has accused Microsoft of using nearly 200,000 pirated books to create an artificial intelligence model, the latest allegation in the long legal fight over copyrighted works between creative professionals and technology companies.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/27/the-guardian-group-of-high-profile-authors-sue-microsoft-over-use-of-their-books-in-ai-training/

TorrentFreak: Meta’s BitTorrent Uploads of ‘Pirate Library’ Data Equaled 30% of Downloads, Expert Says. “A lawsuit filed by several authors against Meta centers on Meta’s alleged use of pirated books for AI training data and the technical details of BitTorrent which was used to obtain them. Yesterday, Meta filed a motion for summary judgment, while countering the authors’ request to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/26/torrentfreak-metas-bittorrent-uploads-of-pirate-library-data-equaled-30-of-downloads-expert-says/

TorrentFreak: Meta’s BitTorrent Uploads of ‘Pirate Library’ Data Equaled 30% of Downloads, Expert Says. “A lawsuit filed by several authors against Meta centers on Meta’s alleged use of pirated books for AI training data and the technical details of BitTorrent which was used to obtain them. Yesterday, Meta filed a motion for summary judgment, while countering the authors’ request to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/26/torrentfreak-metas-bittorrent-uploads-of-pirate-library-data-equaled-30-of-downloads-expert-says/

UK Publishers and Cambridge, Call out Meta and Piracy in Generative AI Training

As Bologna Book Plus prepares its full-morning "AI Summit for April 1, new condemnation of Meta and pirated copyrighted content.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/03/uk-publishers-and-cambridge-call-out-meta-and-piracy-in-generative-ai-training/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AssociationofAmericanPublishers #BolognaBookPlus #BookPiracy
@indieauthors

UK Publishers and Cambridge, Call out Meta and Piracy in Generative AI Training

As Bologna Book Plus prepares its full-morning "AI Summit for April 1, new condemnation of Meta and pirated copyrighted content.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/03/uk-publishers-and-cambridge-call-out-meta-and-piracy-in-generative-ai-training/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AssociationofAmericanPublishers #BolognaBookPlus #BookPiracy
@indieauthors

Tom’s Hardware: Meta defends using pirated material, claims it’s legal if you don’t seed content. “Meta claimed in a court filing this week that despite torrenting an 82 TB dataset of pirated, copyrighted material from shadow libraries to train its LLaMA AI models, that employees ‘took precautions not to “seed” any downloaded files’. The act of Seeding in torrenting terminology refers to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/23/toms-hardware-meta-defends-using-pirated-material-claims-its-legal-if-you-dont-seed-content/

Tom’s Hardware: Meta defends using pirated material, claims it’s legal if you don’t seed content. “Meta claimed in a court filing this week that despite torrenting an 82 TB dataset of pirated, copyrighted material from shadow libraries to train its LLaMA AI models, that employees ‘took precautions not to “seed” any downloaded files’. The act of Seeding in torrenting terminology refers to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/23/toms-hardware-meta-defends-using-pirated-material-claims-its-legal-if-you-dont-seed-content/

TorrentFreak: ‘Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna’s Archive, Despite Few Seeders’. “Freshly unsealed court documents reveal that Meta downloaded significant amounts of data from shadow libraries through Anna’s Archive. The company’s use of BitTorrent was already known, but internal email communication reveals sources and terabytes of downloaded data, as well as a struggle […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/07/torrentfreak-meta-torrented-over-81-tb-of-data-through-annas-archive-despite-few-seeders/

TorrentFreak: ‘Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna’s Archive, Despite Few Seeders’. “Freshly unsealed court documents reveal that Meta downloaded significant amounts of data from shadow libraries through Anna’s Archive. The company’s use of BitTorrent was already known, but internal email communication reveals sources and terabytes of downloaded data, as well as a struggle […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/07/torrentfreak-meta-torrented-over-81-tb-of-data-through-annas-archive-despite-few-seeders/

Reuters: Meta knew it used pirated books to train AI, authors say. “Meta Platforms used pirated versions of copyrighted books to train its artificial intelligence systems with approval from its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a group of authors alleged in newly disclosed court papers. Ta-Nehisi Coates, comedian Sarah Silverman and other authors suing Meta for copyright infringement made the accusations […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/10/reuters-meta-knew-it-used-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/nvidia-denies-pirate-e-book-sites-are-shadow-libraries-to-shut-down-lawsuit/

#ai #nvidia #llm #copyright #author #writers #publishing #books #bookpiracy #lawsuit

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/nvidia-denies-pirate-e-book-sites-are-shadow-libraries-to-shut-down-lawsuit/

#ai #nvidia #llm #copyright #author #writers #publishing #books #bookpiracy #lawsuit