Top 10 Most Pirated Ebooks of 2009

[sabredog]

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

The pirate Kama Sutra is very much like the normal Kama Sutra only with more eye-patches and (dare I say) Jolly Rogers

I would be worried about peg legs and splinters, shiver me timbers....

Notice there is only one fiction work included in that list. No JK Rowling stuff or other best sellers at all?

[Xanthe]

Easy to figure out the gender of the majority of the pirates, isn't it?

[cheerio6414]

Karma Sutra, lol

[LDBoblo]

I'm confused. Is this any different than the same list posted many moons ago?
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55339

[m-reader]

Originally Posted by Sonist

From The Independent:

1. Kama Sutra
2. Photoshop: Secrets of the Pros
3. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Amazing Sex
4. The Lost Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
5. Solar House: A Guide for the Solar Designer
6. Before Pornography: Erotic Writing in Early Modern England
7. Twilight
8. The Science of Influence: How to Get Anyone to Say YES in 8 Minutes or Less
9. Nude Photography: The Art and the Craft
10. Fix It: How to do all those little repair jobs around your home

It appears that most ebook pirates are sexually perverted, environmentally conscious photographers, who have a vampire fetish and enjoy fixing things about the house.

I am not surprised at all. Check the Pirate Bay top 100 e-book torrents. It looks very similar to this ...

[ChrisC333]

Originally Posted by Sonist

It appears that most ebook pirates are sexually perverted, environmentally conscious photographers, who have a vampire fetish and enjoy fixing things about the house.

Unfair.

On behalf of all sexually perverted, environmentally conscious photographers, who have a vampire fetish and enjoy fixing things about the house:

MOST OF US BUY OUR OWN BOOKS!

:

[lene1949]

This is why I can't hire a handyman to do little jobs around the house for me... He has obviously already downloaded and read all the books on that list...

I'll just have to get the last one, so I can do it all myself...

[m-reader]

Originally Posted by lene1949

This is why I can't hire a handyman to do little jobs around the house for me... He has obviously already downloaded and read all the books on that list...

If your tradie's got his laptop in front of him reading "Plumbing for Dummies" instructions while fixing your gas oven, run!

[nikkers]

What have we have here , the aussie sub branch meeting of mobileread or does it just indicate we are the most screwed over country for geo restrictions so any mention of pirate books makes us want to find out more .

[Fat Abe]

Sonist- funny you should list Pascal Baetan's Nude Photography, The Art and the Craft. This is absolutely the best non-technical book to test the pdf rendering engines of today's mobile readers. Failing grades: iPad, iPod, Sony, Kindle 2, Irex DR800SG. Passing grade: Motorola Droid (but only if you install the $3.99 Beamreader App). Now, the reason I don't see many people complaining about the book is that they don't own a printed version, and don't realize what they are missing. Excellent pirate test.

[Sonist]

Originally Posted by Fat Abe

Sonist- funny you should list Pascal Baetan's Nude Photography, The Art and the Craft. This is absolutely the best non-technical book to test the pdf rendering engines of today's mobile readers....

O.K.. Maybe, and only in the interest of science, I will try to find to find it

[sabredog]

Originally Posted by nikkers

What have we have here , the aussie sub branch meeting of mobileread or does it just indicate we are the most screwed over country for geo restrictions so any mention of pirate books makes us want to find out more .

Too right

Now don't say you are with iiNet otherwise you might have a knock on the door from a AFACT heavy.

[Barthelemy]

Confusing title..

I guess 'pirated' in this sense means book that is the most downloaded and not being part of any trade transaction.

I just wonder from where they took their data, I don't think that torrent sites, direct download sites, news groups, p2p, p2m, ... that any of these whould provide any data to the press willingly.

So they based it on what trolls download most, and as trolls don't know how to find anything meaningful they post something 'cool' on their social websites or blogs so other trolls just like them might spread the virus farther.

You just have to look on the titles above to understand everything about this certain group of people, the books are either fiction bestsellers (people thinking .. so many people read and 'talk' about it so it has to be good) or people trying to satisfy their basic urges (things relating to sex).

I would like to see titles like the ones mentioned by Mortimer Adler, books which you could read again and again and always find something new in them. Practical books (how to.. ) have their merits, but ultimate goal should be enhancing your mind state and I won't be able to do that with any of Stephanie Meyer's works (or any other from the list for that matter), will I?

[K-Thom]

Leaving aside the monkey buisness the article does suggest that any book download at least on torrents is somehow wrong and ignores that some books are in the public domain.

<irony>I see you finally understand the logic of most media companies. Downloading in itself is an evil deed only performed to inflict unimaginabel damage by wretched souls who would snicker a hideous laughter with each insatiable mouse click.

There is no such thing as a legally acceptible download. Even downloading work out of copyright means to intentionally infringe the post mortem right of a long dead author with no due respect to his/her immortal soul.</irony>

[Kevin2960]

Originally Posted by Sonist

.....

I Know

Sonist I keep meaning to ask why you have a piccy of my deceased father as your AVATAR ????