Through these initiatives, World Book and Copyright Day is more relevant in the UK than ever before, with new technology and literacy issues now impacting at the heart of the democratic process.

UNESCO: 2010 World Book Day

Mountain View was also quick to highlight how responsive it's been to industry concerns -- citing the fact that it receives and processes more copyright complaints in a day than it did in all of 2009 combined.

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The hot file-sharing site of the day is LimeWire, right in New York, now the defendant in a copyright lawsuit but equipped with some clever defenses.

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In a fast-moving world where technological innovation has brought new developments in e-books and online access to contents of books, UNESCO Secretary General Irina Bokova has maintained that in celebrating World Book Day, it is important to remember that there can be no book development without consideration for copyright, especially when digitization further exposes books to risks of illicit use.

UNESCO: 2010 World Book Day

On the first day that Radiohead's latest became available, around 240, 000 users downloaded the album from copyright-infringing peer-to-peer BitTorrent sources, according to Big Champagne, a Los-Angeles-based company that tracks illegal downloading on the Internet.

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