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Software Piracy Exposed
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Software Piracy Exposed $41.95 This book is about software piracy–what it is and how it’s done. Stealing software is not to be condoned, and theft of intellectual property and copyright infringement are serious matters, but it’s totally unrealistic to pretend that it doesn’t happen. Software piracy has reached epidemic proportions. Many computer users know this, the software companies know this, and once you’ve read the Introduction to this book, you’ll understand why. Seeing how widespread software piracy is, learning how it’s accomplished, and particularly how incredibly easy it is to do might surprise you. This book describes how software piracy is actually being carried out. * This book is about software piracy–what it is and how it’s done * This is the first book ever to describe how software is actually stolen and traded over the internet * Discusses security implications resulting from over 1/2 of the internet’s computers running illegal, unpatched, pirated software |
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Internet Piracy Exposed $1.89 This book is in New – Excellent condition |
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Piracy of Digital Content $32 This book studies digital piracy – the infringement of copyrighted content (such as music, films, software, broadcasting, books, etc.) – where the end product does not involve the use of hard media, such as CDs and DVDs. It presents the unique economic properties of markets for pirated digital products, where the existence of a large number of suppliers willing to provide pirated content at virtually no cost poses new and difficult challenges to copyright owners and policy makers in combating that piracy. These economic features, together with rapid technological developments, create special and unique problems to policy makers and the large number of actors involved in different jurisdictions. This book also provides an illustrative, in-depth case study of the sports rights owners sector, highlighting how it is affected by digital piracy. |
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Exposed $39.99 This is the eBook version of the printed book. Photographer Michael Clark provides an inside look at the reality of working in extreme conditions to capture and process his breath-taking images. He offers start-to-finish details of some of his most demanding assignments – rock climbing, big wave surfing, sky diving, and mountain biking – sharing his personal shooting expertise, on-the-fly problem solving skills, and post-processing techniques in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop. This gorgeous guide for intermediate to advanced DSLR shooters is packed with practical tips, detailed lighting setups, and behind-the-scenes stories from a variety of Clark’s most adventurous assignments. With an engaging writing style and cliffhanger details, the author allows you to tag along with him to improve your skills and find inspiration to create images instead of just taking them. A DVD-ROM with 149-minutes of video shows the author’s post-processing workflow using Lightroom and Photoshop for 16 of the images featured in the book. He also includes a how-to primer on these software programs. Clark’s valuable insights and tips will guide professional and aspiring photographers interested in turning their passion into a profession as well as amateur photographers looking to improve their skills. |
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Piracy $18 Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America, for instance, claimed that in 2005 the film industry lost $2.3 billion in revenue to piracy online. But here Adrian Johns shows that piracy has a much longer and more vital history than we have realized—one that has been largely forgotten and is little understood. Piracy explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet in the twenty-first. Brimming with broader implications for today’s debates over open access, fair use, free culture, and the like, Johns’s book ultimately argues that piracy has always stood at the center of our attempts to reconcile creativity and commerce—and that piracy has been an engine of social, technological, and intellectual innovations as often as it has been their adversary. From Cervantes to Sonny Bono, from Maria Callas to Microsoft, from Grub Street to Google, no chapter in the story of piracy evades Johns’s graceful analysis in what will be the definitive history of the subject for years to come. |
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Software Vulnerabilities Exposed $77.95 No Synopsis Available |
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The International Response to Somali Piracy $92 The International Response to Somali Piracy |
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Piracy and Maritime Terrorism $174 Piracy and Maritime Terrorism |
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PaintShop Pro X4 Ultimate $99.99 Photo-editing software that lets you get the look you want, every time. along with award-winning Nik Color Efex Pro 3.0 photographic filters, your choice of 21 high-quality images from Fotolia and free Picture Tubes. Edit your photos, browse, tag and organize your growing photo collection. Create perfectly exposed photos or stunning surrealistic images. Easily remove flaws and objects from your photos. |
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Internet Piracy $37.07 Allows readers to use critical thinking to create informed opinions on where they stand on the issue of internet piracy. |
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Modern Piracy $55 Piracy is not simply a fabled part of seafaring history that serves as a foundation for entertaining Hollywood movies. Piracy is alive and well in the modern world. Armed with sophisticated tools like GPS locators and cell phones, today’s pirates prey on both commercial and private vessels, and their attacks have far-reaching effects. |
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Buccaneer in the Classic Days of Piracy $39.99 Buccaneer in the Classic Days of Piracy – Giclee Print |
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PaintShop Pro X4 $79.99 Create Studio-Quality Images With Professional Tools. Create perfectly exposed photos or stunning surrealistic images. Easily remove flaws and objects from your photos. Edit your photos, browse, tag and organize your growing photo collection. |
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Digital Piracy $39.95 Digital Piracy provides a guide to this often-vague world of copyright, intellectual property, and related legal issues. Looking at real-life examples, coverage includes the landmark $1.9 million judgment in favor of the Recording Industry Association of America over illegally downloaded music. This new title also explains why original, user-created videos may be removed from hosting sites, such as YouTube, if they contain copyrighted images or music in the background. In addition, it gives readers the information they need to protect their intellectual property on the Internet. |
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Piracy in the GraecoRoman World $173.65 This book is an historical study of piracy in the ancient Greek and Roman world. It examines the origins and growth of piracy, the impact of piracy on trade, and the relationship between warfare and piracy, and evaluates attempts to suppress piracy by the states and rulers of the ancient world. A major innovation is the authors discussion of the way that pirates and piracy are portrayed in major works of classical literature, including Homer, Cicero and the ancient novels. Author: de Souza, Philip/ Souza, Philip de/ Philip De, Souza Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 296 Publication Date: 1999/12/09 Age Level: 03 UP Language: English Dimensions: 9.28 x 6.23 x 0.88 inches |
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Hacking Exposed Malware and Rootkits $49.99 "A harrowing guide to where the bad guys hide, and how you can find them." –Dan Kaminsky, Director of Penetration Testing, IOActive. "An amazing resource. It is timely, focused, and what we need to better understand and defend against one of the greatest cyber threats we face." –From the Foreword by Lance Spitzner, President of the Honeynet Project. Don't let another machine become a zombie in the malware army. Defend against the ongoing wave of malware and rootkit assaults the failsafe Hacking Exposed way. Real-world case studies and examples reveal how today's hackers use readily available tools to infiltrate and hijack systems. Step-by-step countermeasures provide proven prevention techniques. Find out how to detect and eliminate malicious embedded code, block pop-ups and websites, prevent keylogging, and terminate rootkits. The latest intrusion detection, firewall, honeynet, antivirus, anti-rootkit, and anti-spyware technologies are covered in detail.: Understand how malware infects, survives, and propagates across an enterprise; Learn how hackers use archivers, encryptors, and packers to obfuscate code; Implement effective intrusion detection and prevention procedures; Defend against keylogging, redirect, click fraud, and identity theft threats; Detect, kill, and remove virtual, user-mode, and kernel-mode rootkits; Prevent malicious website, phishing, client-side, and embedded-code exploits; Protect hosts using the latest antivirus, pop-up blocker, and firewall software; Identify and terminate malicious processes using HIPS and NIPS |
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Piracy in Southeast Asia $65.9 In the Southeast Asian context where the incidence and violence of piracy have been growing and where maritime terrorism is a threat with potentially horrific consequences, there is an urgent need to come up with innovative ways to counter maritime violence. Beyond providing a solid foundation for the analysis of maritime piracy in Southeast Asia, the book also gives considerable attention to the challenges of regional cooperation. It is indeed regional cooperation that can make a major impact on piracy if more effective collaboration can be negotiated. The immediate practical challenge that emerges clearly from the contributions to this book is the need to continue to support initiatives to build trust and cooperation at the regional level in Southeast Asia. |
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Chinese Counterfeiting and Piracy $1.99 This Element is an excerpt from The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won (ISBN: 9780132359825) by Peter Navarro. Available in print and digital formats. China’s massive commercial piracy and counterfeiting industries: how they work and how they hurt you . Consumers may find it hard to feel sorry for fat cat corporations like Louis Vuitton or Disney when Chinese pirates knock off their luxury handbags or first-run movies. But Chinese counterfeiting and piracy are hardly limited to upscale baubles and Hollywood entertainment. And Chinese counterfeiting and piracy expose every one of us to extreme health and safety risks…. |
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Contemporary Maritime Piracy in Southeast Asia $44.9 This book explores contemporary maritime piracy in Southeast Asia, demonstrating the utility of using historical context in developing policy approaches that will address the roots of this resurgent phenomenon. The depth and breadth of historical piracy help highlight causative factors of contemporary piracy, which are immersed in the socio-cultural matrix of maritime-oriented peoples to whom piracy is still a “thinkable” option. The threats to life and property posed by piracy are relatively low, but significant given the strategic nature of these waterways that link the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and because piracy is emblematic of broader issues of weak state control in the littoral states of the region. Maritime piracy will never be completely eliminated, but with a progressive economic and political agenda aimed at changing the environment from which piracy is emerging, it could once again become the exception rather than the rule. |
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Why Fish Piracy Persists $77 Why Fish Piracy Persists: The Economics of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing focuses on the economic, environmental and social aspects of fish piracy and identifies the forces that drive this activity. Based on data from a workshop of around 120 experts, as well as analytical documents developed for this study, this book presents the most systematic and consolidated information to date in order to assess measures already in place and to propose new solutions. "A very useful and illuminating report…". -Ausmarine Professional Fisherman, November 2005 |
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Programming Interviews Exposed $29.99 The pressure is on during the interview process but with the right preparation, you can walk away with your dream job. This classic book uncovers what interviews are really like at America’s top software and computer companies and provides you with the tools to succeed in any situation. The authors take you step-by-step through new problems and complex brainteasers they were asked during recent technical interviews. 50 interview scenarios are presented along with in-depth analysis of the possible solutions. The problem-solving process is clearly illustrated so you’ll be able to easily apply what you’ve learned during crunch time. You’ll also find expert tips on what questions to ask, how to approach a problem, and how to recover if you become stuck. All of this will help you ace the interview and get the job you want. What you will learn from this book Tips for effectively completing the job application Ways to prepare for the entire programming interview process How to find the kind of programming job that fits you best Strategies for choosing a solution and what your approach says about you How to improve your interviewing skills so that you can respond to any question or situation Techniques for solving knowledge-based problems, logic puzzles, and programming problems Who this book is for This book is for programmers and developers applying for jobs in the software industry or in IT departments of major corporations. Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved. |
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Piracy and the State $72 This original study demonstrates that the Chinese state is simultaneously weak and strong in its capacity to enforce laws and regulations protecting intellectual property rights (IPR). |
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Traditional Knowledge Related Biodiversity and Genetic Resources in Developing Countries: Issues of Piracy& Protection
Introduction:
THE 21st century will be a century of knowledge, indeed a century of the mind. Innovation is the key to the production as well as processing of knowledge. It is the ability of nation to convert knowledge into wealth and social good through the process of innovation and it will determine its future. Several studies have pointed to the increasing significance of knowledge and Traditional Knowledge systems in sustainable development in India.
Until about 20 years ago, no one had heard about the term “Traditional knowledge”. Now, the term “Traditional knowledge” is omnipresent. It is sought after by governments, studied in universities around the world, recognized in environmental-assessment processes, and promoted by international protocols for environmental protection and third world development. It is the back bone of cultural heritage. Traditional knowledge refers to knowledge, possessed by indigenous people, in one or more societies and in one or more forms, including, but not limited to, art, dance and music, medicines and folk remedies, folk culture, biodiversity, knowledge and protection of plant varieties, handicrafts, designs, literature etc. There is no universal definition of Traditional knowledge; however, scholars typically define it either as knowledge developed by indigenous communities or tradition-based intellectual activity.
Traditional knowledge
“Traditional knowledge is the information that people in a given community, based on experience and adaptation to a local culture and environment, have developed over time, and continues to develop“.
This knowledge is used to sustain the community and its culture and to maintain the genetic resources necessary for the continued survival of the community. In other words we can say that:
“Traditional knowledge is the body of the knowledge built by a group of people through generations leaving in close contact with nature. It includes system of classification, set of empirical observations about the local environment, and a system of self management. That governs resource use.”
Human communities have always generated, refined and passed on knowledge from generation to generation. Such “knowledge” is often an important part of their cultural identities. Traditional knowledge has played, and still plays, a vital role in the daily lives of the vast majority of people. It is very essential to the food security and health of millions of people in the developing world. Indigenous people often claim that their knowledge has been pirated by the MNC’s. Traditional knowledge generally encompasses two forms of knowledge. (i)Medicinal or Plant knowledge (ii) Folklore or Traditional cultural expression. This knowledge is used to sustain the community and its culture and to maintain the genetic resources necessary for the continued survival of the community. The culture and knowledge systems of indigenous people and their institutions provide useful frameworks, ideas, guiding principles, procedures and practices that can serve as a foundation for effective endogenous development options for restoring social, economic and environmental resilience in many parts of the country. It is therefore essential that Traditional Knowledge Systems in the developing countries should not be overshadowed by the domination of cultures that foster inequality and materialism.
Traditional Knowledge is a pluralistic approach for conserving and managing natural resources. It is very dynamic and new knowledge is continuously added. In the recent past, there have been several cases of bio-piracy of Traditional Knowledge from India like Neem, Turmeric, Basmati, bitter gourd, brinjal, Ayahuasca, Hoodia Cactus, Rosy periwinkle, Kani tribe’s jeevni drug etc. Currently India is struggling with the latest case of Ashwangandha. Even 90% world biological resources come from the under developed countries like Asia and Africa. Yet 97% of world patents (world-wide) hold by the MNCs. The MNCs trying to make killing out our own-age old knowledge. In this context, issues of generation, valuation, protection and exploitation of intellectual property (IP) are going to become critically important all around the world.
The importance of IPR in the Indian economy will have to be understood properly. Tomorrow’s wars will be fought not by conventional weapons, guns, missiles and so on, but in the knowledge markets with new thermonuclear weapons called information and knowledge. The war on patent rights which took place between Eastman Kodak and Polaroid was settled for about one billion dollars recently. So these wars in the knowledge market will be expensive. As India plays its new role in a globalized world and changes its IP laws, it will have to gear up to fight these wars in both India and abroad.
The issue of protection of Traditional knowledge is debated in a wide range of international forums including World Trade Organization (WTO), World Intellectual Property Rights (WIPO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Labour Organization (ILO), International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), etc. The Trade Related Aspect of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement is aiding the exploitation of biodiversity by privatising biodiversity expressed in life forms and knowledge.
Exponential growth of scientific knowledge, increasing demands for new forms of intellectual property protection as well as access to IP related information, increasing dominance of the new knowledge economy over the old ‘brick and mortar‘ economy, complexities linked to IP in traditional knowledge, community knowledge and animate objects, will pose a challenge in setting a new 21st century IP agenda. Intellectual property will no longer be seen as a distinct or self-contained domain, but rather as an important and effective policy instrument relevant to a wide range of socio-economic, technological and political concerns. The development of skills and competence to manage IPR and leverage its influence will need increasing focus, particularly in countries such as India.
Economical Prospective
The western world viewed IP and how built its economy. We have been late beginners, but we must catch up fast. It was the CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), who is showing the way to the nation, ten years ago, CSIR secured only five to six US patents per year. In 2003, it secured 196 US patents in a single year! CSIR has been constantly among the top three in the list of top fifty PCT (Patent Corporation Treaty) filers brought out by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for the developing countries and has maintained a 30% to 40% share of the US patents granted to Indians in India.
A knowledge based industry needs to move aggressively and increase its share in IP. In particular our IT, pharmaceutical and biotech industries, among others, will have to face many challenges under the new IPR regime. The IT industry has maintained an impressive growth rate in software export and we dream of becoming an IT super power. For this to happen, we will have to reduce the content of body shopping and move on to innovative IT products, which will need IP protection. The Indian IT industry has so far not factored this in their strategic plans, but it will have to pay increasing attention to this aspect.
Legal Prospective
Although intellectual property covers diverse aspects such as copyright, trademarks, design, among others, it is the issue of patents that has attracted the greatest attention. Therefore, we need good patent laws in India. The first patent law in India was enacted in 1856. At the beginning of the 20th century, in 1911, the Indian Patents and Designs Act were enacted. The need for a comprehensive law so as to ensure that patent rights are not worked to the detriment of the consumer or to the prejudice of trade or the industrial development of the country was felt as early as in 1948. After several attempts a bill introduced in the Parliament came on the statute book as the Patent Act 1970. We have already made several changes in our IP acts over the years. The nation always needs a robust IP act to facilitate innovation, growth as well as development.
Before we protect IP we must generate IP which is worth protecting. We need to encourage the publication of R&D results in scientific papers only after careful consideration of the consequences on IP rights. It is hard to estimate the loss of Indian intellectual property due to the inadvertent publication of usable knowledge in the last few decades. There is a need for further exposure for those in the judiciary to deal with the evolving developments in the intellectual property field. In our country, the delay in law courts causes great frustration to the patentee, and as such it would be desirable to have the members of the judiciary exposed to the decisions and the guiding principles that emerge from them.
There are special areas of concern to India, and that includes its rich traditional knowledge base, in particular its great strength in traditional medicine. Indeed, traditional medicines (TM) play a crucial role in health care services and the health needs of a vast majority of people in developing countries, including India. The protection under intellectual property rights (IPRs) may cover certain aspects of TM. There have also been many proposals to develop sui generis systems of protection. Such proposals are based on the logic that if innovators receive compensation through IPRs, holders of traditional knowledge should be similarly treated.
The codification of TM varies significantly. A distinction can be made, particularly in India, between the codified systems of ‘traditional medicine’ and non-codified medicinal knowledge, which includes ‘folk’, ‘tribal’ or ‘indigenous’ medicine. Thus, in India, folk traditions are handed over orally from generation to generation. The ‘folk’ medicine is based on traditional beliefs, norms and practices based on century’s old experiences of trials and errors, successes and failures at the household level. These are passed through oral tradition and may be called, ‘people’s health culture’, home remedies or folk remedies. Individuals may possess TM. In some cases, for instance, healers use rituals as part of their traditional healing methods, which often allow them to monopolize their knowledge despite disclosure of the phytochemical products or techniques used. The codified tradition consists of medical knowledge with sophisticated foundations expressed in thousands of manuscripts covering all branches of medicine. Some examples are Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and the Tibetan tradition.
The grant of patents on non-original innovations (particularly those linked to traditional medicine) which are based on what is already a part of the traditional knowledge of the developing world, have been a cause of great concern to the developing world. It was CSIR that challenged the US patent No. 5,401,5041, which was granted for the wound healing properties of turmeric. In a landmark judgment, the US Patent Office revoked this patent in 1997, after ascertaining that there was no novelty; the findings by innovators having been known in India for centuries. This was a landmark event in the sense that it was the first time such a patent given on the traditional knowledge was challenged.
This case was followed by yet another case of revocation in May 2000. The patent granted to W.R. Grace Company and US Department of Agriculture on Neem (EPO patent no. 436257) by the European Patent Office too was quashed on grounds that its use was known in India. Then followed another case, India filed a re-examination request for the patent on Basmati rice lines and grains (US Patent No. 5,663,484) granted by the USPTO, and Ricetec Company from Texas decided to withdraw the specific claims challenged by India and also some additional claims.
The grant of patents linked to indigenous knowledge of the developing world needs to be addressed jointly by the developing and developed world. A recent study by an Indian expert group examined randomly selected 762 US patents which were granted under A61K35/78 and other IPC classes having a direct relationship to medicinal plants in terms of their full text. Out of these patents, 374 patents were found to be based on traditional knowledge, not that all of them were wrong. The governments in the Third World, as well as members of the public, are rightly concerned about the grant of patents for non-original inventions in the traditional knowledge systems of the developing world. At the international level, there is significant support for opposing the grant of patents on non-original inventions.
To mitigate this problem, the Government of India also has taken steps to create a Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) on traditional medicinal plants and systems, which will also lead to a Traditional Knowledge Resource Classification (TKRC). Linking this to an internationally accepted International Patent Classification (IPC) System will mean building a bridge between the knowledge contained in an old Sanskrit shloka and the computer screen of a patent examiner in Washington. Hopefully this will eliminate the problem of the grant of wrong patents since the examiner will be aware of the Indian rights to that knowledge.
Conclusion & Suggestion:
As India begins this journey into the 21st century, a century of knowledge, its strategies not only on the generation of new knowledge but also its protection and valorisation will play a critical role. Our strategy has to evolve around bringing IP protection into the mainstream of our endeavours in education, science and technology, legal and judicial systems, trade and economics. Then alone can India move rapidly into a commanding position among the comity of nations.
Apart from the new act, we have to be prepared to face new challenges in diverse fields connected with IP. For instance, skills in filing, reading and exploiting patents will be most crucial in the years to come. We must properly protect our inventions and fully understand the implications of the patents granted to our competitors. Many of the patents written by our professionals could be easily circumvented. Manpower planning for IPR protection needs priority. IPR must be made a compulsory subject matter in law courses in our universities. The graduates coming out of engineering and technology streams have no idea about IPR, and yet it is these young people who will have to fight these emerging wars in the knowledge markets.
A number of patent training institutes will have to be set up. China has already set up several patent training institutes and we have none! Judicious management of patent information will require well-structured functioning of information creating centers, information documenters and retrievers, information users, IPR specialists and information technology experts.
About the Author
Pradeep Kumar Gangwar
(Assistant Professor of Law)



