Self publisher documents e-book ripoff and virus at DocStock.com

By Steve Weber | Published: April 21, 2010

Finding that the eBook for sale was a mashup of book excerpts from my website and articles from a computer support website was no surprise, but the Trojan virus downloader took me aback. I would have assumed that DocStoc would at least pre-scan the files that were uploaded so they don't spread viruses to their user base.

via Self Publishing 2.0: Pirate Mashups And Promoting eBook Rip-Offs.

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