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German Book Industry to Target 'Thousands' of File-Sharers

By soulxtc

Call it a form of "organized crime, and muse that perhaps it faces a crossroads similar to the one it faced in Gutenberg's day 500yrs ago. E-books are one of the last remaining frontiers for file-sharers to really trade and consume, but with technology like Amazon's Kindle making them a more palatable reading experience than staring at a 20" monitor for hours on end this is slowly changing. As a result, the German book industry is see the writing on the wall and is trying to fight the threat head on. "We are in tough against illegal downloading, against theft on the Internet, to proceed" and "the courts with thousands of procedures employed," said (GOOGLE TRANSLATION) the chief executive of the Association of German Publishers and Booksellers, Alexander Skipis, at the opening of the Leipzig Book Fair on Thursday. "The policy is forcing us to take this step.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on March 20, 2009 (boomark / email).