Censorship And Piracy
Sun Mar 18, 2018 2:47 pm #1
Online retailers such as Amazon's Kindle Select are making waves for authors who have limited adult or sensitive content in their novels such as Damian Light's book entitled "The Pirate Dunn: A Memory" about a time travelling pirate who lives in a mental institution and is a reformed racist. The book has adult situations, violence and sex as well as an occassional inuendo and has caused Kindle reps to not only have the book removed from Amazon but the Employees have been suspected of selling the author's work illegally on the black market while claiming censure and denying the author the right to view or update his work in his private amazon kindle settings. Kindle has not responded to inquiry enough to satisfy an answer. Only words are that some Amazon employees back the author's claims and others have been accused of trying to steal the work and unmarket it due to censorship and online piracy plans. Light claims that Amazon is a bigger scandal than illegal surveillance on Google.
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ECONOMIC Between the years of 2000 and 2008, music made a sharp decline in sales and distribution. In fact, album and music sales topped in 1999, with a whopping 260 million albums sold, but declined to 250 million albums sold in the year of 2000. Record Album sales continued to decline each year and hit a low in 2007 of 140 million albums sold, matching sales records of 1977 when sales began to make a steady incline. (Stop music theft, 2011) However these sales do not reflect digital downloads which increased the number to over 800 million in the year 2000 but then declined to a combined download and album sales total to just over 300 million in the year 2012. (Saving Country Music, 2012) In the UK, a survey of people between the ages of 12 and 74 years old have been accustomed to downloading music. However a figure of about 8 million people in the UK, have admitted to pirating music through illegal downloads off of the internet, which many claim to be destroying the pockets of recor...

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