Amazon's erotica section isn't just rife with tales of lust, incest, violence, and straight-up kink. It's also a hotbed of masked merchants profiting from copyright infringement. And even with anti-piracy legislation looming, Amazon doesn't appear too eager to stop the forbidden author-on-author action.READ»
A crusader from Attrition.org has found that an alarmingly high number of books written by computer security experts are nearly 100% copied from other sources. What does that say about the industry?READ»
You no longer need to be as big as BP to create a giant oil spill of negative PR on the web. Just look at Cooks Source, a small business that generated a colossal amount of bad press by the way it treated a single blogger. Here's what you can do to avoid the same problem. READ»
Uh oh. Looks like another case of a corporate behemoth ripping off the little guy. It's mean and nasty Microsoft again, seemingly victimizing microblogger service Plurk. The murky bit is that it's happening in China, where respect ...READ»
The Virginia Quarterly Review took a close look at Wired editor Chris Anderson's upcoming book Free, and discovered that entire passages appear to match entries in Wikipedia verbatim. Says reviewer Waldo Jaquith:
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