Online Course Service Udemy Criticized For Pirated Materials

Udemy faces criticism for profiting from pirated online courses

Critics say online learning service doesn't do enough to police copyright violations

Amar Toor | November 29, 2015

Udemy, an online learning service, has come under criticism for selling pirated courses. The controversy began this week, when security specialist Troy Hunt discovered that one of his courses on ethical hacking was available on Udemy under another author's name. As The Next Web reports, the video had been edited to remove Hunt's introduction at the beginning, but was otherwise unchanged from the version available on Pluralsight, the video's copyright holder. On Udemy, the pirated course was available for £37 ($56).

1. Troy Hunt ‏@troyhunt  Nov 26

   So @udemy has reproduced my entire video, they've just cropped out "Hi, I'm Troy Hunt" and removed the @pluralsight watermark. Shameful.

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Troy Hunt‏@troyhunt

Still can't get @udemy to remove my pirated courses they're selling. Literally me talking, but my name cropped out.

Source: https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/670149991881531392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

<more at http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/29/9813780/udemy-pirated-course-copyright-troy-hunt; related links: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/11/27/udemy-published-a-pirated-course-from-pluralsight-and-still-hasnt-removed-it/ (Udemy has a piracy problem and it’s relying on users to figure it out. November 27, 2015) and https://medium.com/@robconery/how-udemy-is-profiting-from-piracy-5638b929ffca#.kqmquydg8 (How Udemy Is Profiting From Piracy. November 27, 2015)>