{"id":1530,"date":"2018-08-31T13:34:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T02:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2018-08-31T13:34:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T02:34:34","slug":"shut-down-oceanofpdf-piracy-website-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/articles\/2018\/08\/31\/1530\/shut-down-oceanofpdf-piracy-website-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Shut down Oceanofpdf piracy website returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">US-hosted ebook piracy website Oceanofpdf, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/articles\/2018\/08\/07\/112748\/oceanofpdf-piracy-website-taken-down\/\"><span class=\"s2\">was recently shut down<\/span><\/a>, has returned under a .net domain,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/piracy-website-oceanofpdf-returns-847811\"><span class=\"s2\">reports the\u00a0<em>Bookseller<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The<em>\u00a0Bookseller<\/em>\u00a0reported on 22 August that the website was offering free copies of books by authors such as Jeff Kinney, Roald Dahl, Philip Pullman, John Irving and Junot Diaz, however, these have since been taken down from the website. Many other ebooks, including the \u2018For Dummies\u2019 series (Wiley) and educational books by O\u2019Reilly Media, are being given away for free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Australian Society of Authors (ASA) president Juliet Rogers said, \u2018The ASA notes with concern that OceanofPDF, the large piracy site, has recently returned under another guise. While we have no direct complaints about this from authors as yet, we would urge everyone to be vigilant and check the site frequently, so that they can alert their publishers to issue takedown notices if problems arise.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">The website advises anyone who wants to make complaints about copyright infringement to contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:smtebooks1@smtebooks.com\">smtebooks1@smtebooks.com<\/a>, suggesting the site is affiliated with ebook website SMTE Books.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong><em>This news story first appeared in <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/articles\/2018\/08\/23\/113883\/oceanofpdf-piracy-website-returns\">Books+Publishing<\/a><em> on 23 August 2018. <\/em>Books+Publishing <em>is Australia\u2019s leading source of print and digital news about the book industry, keeping <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/subscription\/\"><em>subscribers<\/em><\/a><em> up to date with the latest industry news, announcements, job advertisements, events, trends and more.<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US-hosted ebook piracy website Oceanofpdf, which\u00a0was recently shut down, has returned under a .net domain,\u00a0reports the\u00a0Bookseller. The\u00a0Bookseller\u00a0reported on 22 August that the website was offering free copies of books by authors such as Jeff Kinney, Roald Dahl, Philip Pullman, John Irving and Junot Diaz, however, these have since been taken down from the website. Many<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-international-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}