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Another Industrial Book Piracy Site

Monday, April 6th, 2020

It looks like we have another massive book piracy site, https://full-english-books.net.

Here’s the WhoIs information:

Domain Name: FULL-ENGLISH-BOOKS.NET
Registry Domain ID: 2298584626_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namesilo.com
Registrar URL: http://www.namesilo.com
Updated Date: 2019-06-10T04:26:19Z
Creation Date: 2018-08-17T17:40:19Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2021-08-17T17:40:19Z
Registrar: NameSilo, LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 1479
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@namesilo.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.4805240066
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Name Server: ARNOLD.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
Name Server: ZITA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
DNSSEC: unsigned

Among the writers they appear to have ripped off are:

  • Neil Gaiman
  • William Gibson
  • Joe Haldeman
  • Elizabeth Hand
  • Stephen Jones
  • Stephen King
  • Joe R. Lansdale
  • George R. R. Martin
  • J. K. Rowling
  • Charles Stross
  • Bruce Sterling
  • Lisa Tuttle

    • Among many, many others.

    I’m no longer a member of SFWA, but those who are may want to pass this on to the legal committee…

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    Massive Science Fiction Piracy at BookOS.org

    Tuesday, May 7th, 2013

    Good news, everyone! There’s a new website called BookOS offering millions of free books to download!

    Bad news, everyone! It’s a pirate site that most likely hasn’t obtained any e-rights for any of the millions of copyrighted works they have available!

    Who are they pirating? Well, they have around a hundred works by Howard Waldrop that I know they haven’t bought e-rights for (because I asked him), and they have hundreds of works by:

  • Gail Carriger
  • Bil Crider
  • Paul Di Filippo
  • Harlan Ellison (good thing they picked someone whose never been known to sue anyone, eh?)
  • Neil Gaiman
  • Joe R. Lansdale
  • Elizabeth Moon
  • Michael Moorcock
  • Jerry Pournelle
  • Mike Resnick
  • Kristine Kathryn Rusch
  • Gene Wolfe
  • Outgoing SFWA President John Scalzi
  • Incoming SFWA President Steven Gould

    • And that’s just a random handful of writers I know that I checked on (plus Harlan Ellison, whom I’ve met, and who I know has some good lawyers). I’m sure there are hundreds of others.

    Perhaps the folks at SFWA might sit up and take notice. And if your work is being pirated, you might want to write support@bookos.org and ask them to pull it down.

    (Updated: Good news, everyone! Support@bookos.org wrote back to say the Waldrop has been removed, and now there’s a notice saying “Link deleted by legal owner.”)

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