John Wiley & Sons Sues Hundreds For Copyright Infringement & Illegal Downloads of Digital Books
by Ernesto Van Dersar John Wiley & Sons, one of the world’s largest book publishers, is continuing its efforts to crack down on BitTorrent piracy. The company has now named several people who allegedly shared Wiley titles online, and is demanding a jury trial against them. If these actually go ahead it will be the first time that BitTorrent-related evidence is tested in a US court. Last fall, John Wiley and Sons became the first book publisher to go after BitTorrent users in the US. By filing a mass-BitTorrent lawsuit the company followed mostly in the footsteps of several movie studios, […]
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