The problem is fairly simple. Amazon, through its Kindle Direct Publishing program, makes it easy for authors and small publishers to upload works for sale on the Kindle platform. However, as with any other self-publishing platform, the system has become a target for abuse by plagiarists and others wanting to turn a quick buck selling the creators of others.

In Penenburg’s article, for example, one of the authors had 19 ebooks that were entirely stolen, often from free sites such as Literotica. Though Amazon removes infringing/plagiarized content when notified, the process is generally very slow and, since there’s no punishment for plagiarizing authors, many just set up shop again and re-upload the same works under different titles.

The cycle repeats itself and little changes. However, this isn’t exactly a new problem for Amazon. Copyright blunders have been a major part of the Kindle’s growth. Back in 2009, Amazon introduced a means for bloggers to sell Kindle versions of their site and forgot to put any checks to make sure it was the site owner doing the selling.

This also isn’t a new issue for the larger self-publishing industry. Back in 2005, in what was one of the first articles on Plagiarism Today, I took a look at self publisher Lulu and it’s practices with plagiarism. In 2007, I re-visited self publishers and rated their DMCA policies. Though Amazon wasn’t involved in that comparison, CreateSpace, an Amazon subsidiary was and received a B-.

But exactly how much is Amazon to blame for its plagiarism problems? In my view, quite a good deal and, simply put, the situation isn’t going to improve without a lot of work from Amazon to make things better.

My Amazon Problem

Of all of the sites I work with regularly, Amazon is easily one of the worst. The response times to DMCA notices are slow, they throw up artificial roadblocks to filing them (until recently, they didn’t even post their DMCA contact email on their site) and generally not responding at all to some claims until the second or third try.

In my experience, cyberlocker sites, web hosts and even Google are much easier to work with and bring about an effective response in a much more timely manner.

In 2005, Amazon fought hard and won DMCA protection over its services. Since then, for the most part, Amazon has done the bare minimum to maintain that protection and has done little to help keep its products clean. Even as Ebay was pioneering IP enforcement with its Verified Rights Owners (VeRO) program, Amazon has, for the most part, done as little as it can to get by.

The problem is that this isn’t just an intellectual property issue for Amazon, it’s a customer one as well. Going back to Penenburg’s article, if a buyer purchased “Dracula’s Amazing Adventure” only to find out that it was really just a plagiarized version of “Dracula” by Bram Stoker, which is in the public domain and available for free on the Kindle, how is the buyer likely to react?

Amazon, a company that usually earns high marks for customer service, is putting its Kindle customers at risk of being scammed by plagiarists by not taking this situation more seriously and doing more to stop it.

Even worse, Amazon is risking tarnishing its entire brand, especially of its Kindle line, byt not doing more to stop plagiarism and keep infringing authors out.

What Should Amazon Be Doing

Even if the law doesn’t say so, ethically, when you’re selling and earning revenue from works being uploaded through your service, you have a higher degree of responsibility than a regular web host. This is not just for the authors who might be victimized, but for the customers putting down money on a product and the legitimate authors who are using your system in the intended manner.

In Penenburg’s article, ideas were kicked around such as passing all uploaded books through a plagiarism checker, such as iThenticate, and having new mambers of the program register a credit card both for identification purposes and to issue a financial penalty if plagiarism is discovered.

While these ideas are great, the main thing that has to happen is that Amazon has to get tough with its own policies and take these issues seriously. While all self-publishers have issues with plagiarism to some degree, taking the matter seriously, investigating cases thoroughly and removing works quickly are a good first step. Couple that with a plagiarism policy that has teeth, such as requiring plagiarists to repay revenue received, would help a lot to discourage this kind of abuse.

However, that’s going to require that Amazon change its overall position on copyright matters and shift from being a company that does only what’s required or convient to one that is proactive and forward-thinking on these issues.

I don’t see that happening on Amazon, though I’m hoping that this recent round of bad press gets them thinking more about these issues.

Bottom Line

To be clear, I think that Amazon is, despite this, an overall positive for content creators. Not only does it help creators earn money, bypass middle men and get a worldwide audience almost instantly, it’s done so while, mostly, being fair to creators.

Likewise, it’s also my belief that the number of actual plagiarists posting to Amazon is small. It’s just that, due to how easy it is to post a plagiarized book, they tend to be more prolific and can take up a larger share of the “noise’ then they should.

Despite this, there’s definitely room for improvement and this is one of those areas. Both for the sake of authors and buyers, Amazon needs to look long and hard at this plagiarism problem and come up with real solutions to them.

Because, while they’ll never be able to completely eliminate plagiarism, counterfeit or otherwise false offerings on its services, it can definitely do more to reduce them drastically. That will help make the experience better for everyone and, in the long run, help make the market better and earn everyone more money.

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1: Government Reintroduces Copyright Legislation

First off today, Canada’s Industry Minister, Christian Paradis, has re-introduced controversial copyright legislation that will, if passed, add DMCA-like protections against the circumvention of digital locks. The law also legalizes certain forms of format-shifting, such as recording a TV show, that are currently outlawed. The legislation is widely expected to pass now that conservatives hold a majority in the House of Commons.

2: Is Amazon’s Silk browser a copyright pirate?

Next up today, Amazon yesterday introduced its new “Kindle Fire” tablet, which comes with a new mobile browser named “Silk”. The browser uses backend caching by Amazon’s cloud network in order to speed up mobile browsing though many are wondering if Amazon’s caching of copyrighted content in this manner could violate copyright law. Most caching is deemed to be legal but some fear Amazon’s system goes a bit too far beyond the norm, especially with its predictive page loading technology, which anticipates your next page click an pre-loads the content.

3: Mac Software Limits Don’t Violate Copyright

Finally today, Psystar, the apple clone maker that was sued by Apple back in 2009, lost its appeal to the 9th Circuit. Psystar had claimed that Apple was misusing copyright by limiting its license of OSX for use only on Apple products. However, the 9th Circuit ruled unanimously that no such misuse took place and that Apple had not attempted to stifle creativity or competition. The ruling affirms a permanent injunction barring Psystar from selling computers with OSX installed.

Suggestions

That’s it for the three count today. We will be back tomorrow with three more copyright links. If you have a link that you want to suggest a link for the column or have any proposals to make it better. Feel free to leave a comment or send me an email. I hope to hear from you.

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It is Friday again and that means that it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show.

It was an insane week for copyright news with one story dominating the headlines like no other, the new DRM circumvention exemptions. But while everyone was getting excited about jailbreaking their iPhones, other headlines were slipping under the radar including other, likely more important exemptions to the DRM circumvention law as well as several major updates to ongoing cases.

This week’s stories include:

• U.S. Copyright Office Announces DMCA Exemptions
• UFC Hits Back Against Illegal Streams
• Mass Bittorrent Lawsuits Target Private Trackers
• Authors Bypass publishers to Go Digital
• Bratz Dolls Back to Legal Limbo
• WordPress/Thesis Make Up

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Show Notes

About the Hosts

Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey (@plagiarismtoday) is the Webmaster and author of Plagiarism Today (Hint: You’re there now) and works as a copyright and plagiarism consultant. Though not an attorney, he has resolved over 700 cases of plagiarism involving his own work and has helped countless others protect their work and develop strategies for making their content work as hard as possible toward their goals.

Patrick O’Keefe

Patrick O’Keefe (@iFroggy) is the owner of the iFroggy Network, a network of websites covering various interests. He’s the author of the book “Managing Online Forums,” a practical guide to managing online communities and social spaces. He maintains a blog about online community management at ManagingCommunities.com and a personal blog at patrickokeefe.com.

Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

1: UFC Fights Illegal Online Streaming Via Subpoenas Served to Justin.tv, Ustream.tv

First off today, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has filed a series of subpoenas with streaming services Ustream and Justin.tv to determine the IP addresses of those who streamed a recent UFC pay-per-view event illegally over the service. UFC president and spokesperson Dana White said that he “can’t wait” to go after those sharing the content illegally. This move comes after the UFC settled some 500 file sharing lawsuits.

2: Mass BitTorrent Lawsuits Now Target Private Trackers

Next up today, adult movie company Lucas Entertainment has filed a lawsuit in against 65 alleged file sharers in Texas Northern District Court. While that isn’t wholly unusual, what is different is that the lawsuit targets users of Gay-Torrents.net, a private bittorrent tracker with some 235,000 members. The lawsuit raises questions about the role of private trackers in these lawsuits and what, if any, evidence the tracker may be able to provide as they do maintain some logs of user data to track sharing ratios.

3: Celebrated authors bypass publishing houses to sell ebooks via Amazon

Finally today, many well-known authors, including Philip Roth to Orhan Pamuk, Martin Amis and John Updike are bypassing their publishers and, instead, publishing their own eBooks on the Amazon Kindle and similar services. The reason is that many of these authors signed contracts before eBooks were in existence and their deals with publishers don’t cover the new format. Because of this, they have banded together through a new company called Odyssey Editions to release the books online. Newer authors, however, routinely sign contracts that cover all electronic forms of publications, including eBooks, making their participation impossible.

Suggestions

That’s it for the three count today. We will be back tomorrow with three more copyright links. If you have a link that you want to suggest a link for the column or have any proposals to make it better. Feel free to leave a comment or send me an email. I hope to hear from you.

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1: Pirate Bay-trio to sue Dutch copyright group

First off today, The Pirate Bay, has launched something of a counter-offensive by announcing its plans to file a slander lawsuit against the Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN.

Though it isn’t exactly clear what The Pirate Bay is saying was defamatory about any of BREIN’s remarks, this does follow a lawsuit by BREIN against The Pirate Bay. That lawsuit has also been amended to include Global Gaming Factory, the company attempting to purchase The Pirate Bay, even though the sale is not final and the company plans to relaunch the site as a legal service.

The case is already a bit of circus as it saw BREIN actually serve the trial via Twitter saying they could not find any other viable contact information for them. Furthermore, since The Pirate Bay admins are located in Sweden and the lawsuit in the Netherlands, it is unclear how this will work.

Needless to say, this will be an ongoing case for some time.

2: Amazon CEO apologizes for Kindle book deletions

Next up, Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, has issued a written apology to all of the Kindle users who had their copies of “1984″ and “Animal Farm” removed from their devices. In the letter, he states that, “Our ‘solution’ to the problem was stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line with our principles.”

The problem Bezos is referring to is that the publisher of the books did not have permission to make them available via the Kindle when they did so, meaning that the works were essentially copyright infringements. Amazon responded by removing the books from the Kindles they had been purchased for and issued refunds.

Bezos went on to say that, “We will use the scar tissue from this painful mistake to help make better decisions going forward, ones that match our mission.” I guess we will have to wait and see what that means.

3: UK Council Considers Speed Camera Photos Copyrighted

Finally today, the East Sussex County Council in the UK is stating that photographs taken from speed cameras are copyright of the police department and is demanding that at least one site remove the infringing works.

The photographs in question were involved in a court case where a cyclist was ticketed for speeding but later found to be not guilty due to errors in the radar device. A site in turn published those images only to receive the cease and desist letter from the council, which said further actions may be considered if the images are not removed.

The site, which is linked above, has not yet removed the image.

Suggestions

That’s it for the three count today, we’ll be back tomorrow with three more copyright links. If you have a link that you want to suggest a link for the column or have any proposals to make it better. Feel free to leave a comment or send me an email. I hope to hear from you.

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It is Monday again and that means that it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show.

It was a busy week for copyright news with tons of great stories from all over the world including a 1918 case that has come back from the dead, a new Antigua service that claims it can infringe copyright with immunity and an update to the Shepherd Fairey case.

All in all, there were fourteen stories this week including news from all over the copyright world including our “Weird Story of the Week”.

This week’s stories include:

• The AP and All Headline News Settle
• EMI Sues Grooveshark
• Shepherd Fairey’s Case has a New Entrant
• Google’s DMCA Agent Leaves for Twitter
• Play Him Off Keyboard Cat…
• And Many more…

You can download the MP3 file here (direct download). Those interested in subscribing to the show can do so via this feed.

Show Notes

About the Hosts

Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey (@plagiarismtoday) is the Webmaster and author of Plagiarism Today (Hint: You’re there now) and works as a copyright and plagiarism consultant. Though not an attorney, he has resolved over 700 cases of plagiarism involving his own work and has helped countless others protect their work and develop strategies for making their content work as hard as possible toward their goals.

Patrick O’Keefe

Patrick O’Keefe (@iFroggy) is the owner of the iFroggy Network, a network of websites covering various interests. He’s the author of the book “Managing Online Forums,” a practical guide to managing online communities and social spaces. He maintains a blog about online community management at ManagingCommunities.com and a personal blog at patrickokeefe.com.

1: Amazon Says It Will Stop Deleting Kindle Books

First off today, Amazon found itself in a bit of a bind this past week over its Kindle product. Two books which had been uploaded over the Kindle’s self-serve tool, which lets publishers upload their own books for others to purchase, were found to be unauthorized by their publisher. Amazon then went in to the accounts of those who had purchased the books, deleted the work and refunded the money.

Unfortunately though, the books were “1984″ and “Animal Farm”, two books in large part about totalitarian imaginary governments and the control of information.

This caused a controversy to explode as many likened it to breaking into the homes of book buyers, stealing a book back and leaving the money they paid for the book in its place. Reportedly hundreds of customers were affected by this move and Amazon has promised that, in the future, it will not delete any books from Kindle accounts.

However, Amazon has not said how it will deal with future copyright infringements, should they arise.

2: Canada set to try again on new copyright law

Next up today, Canada is looking to take another crack at revising its copyright law. It’s last attempt was was killed in October of last year as new elections swept the old party out of power. The bill then would have reduced the amount companies could have sought for non-commercial infringers, such as file sharers, to $500, would have allowed users to port media to different devices and forbidden users from breaking digital locks.

The new government has begun the process of creating its own revision of copyright law and is seeking feedback from all interested parties. However, this process too risks being swept up by an election as the current party to control the government has a rather tenuous grasp on power and more elections are slated for later this year.

3: DRM is Dead, RIAA Says

Finally today, RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy said in an interview with SCMagazine, “DRM is dead, isn’t it?”

It is a short sentence stating what, to many, is obvious, but it is the first time that the RIAA has gone on record saying that DRM (Digital Rights Management) is no more. DRM, which restricts the user’s ability to copy and port music to other devices, as well as make pirated copies available, has proved to be a public relations disaster for the record labels as every DRM system has been broken and many have felt that it has encouraged piracy by giving pirates features and freedoms that legitimate purchasers did not have.

This comes shortly after the RIAA had predicted a renaissance of DRm sometime in the near future, but also after both iTunes and Amazon MP3 removed all DRM from their stores.

Suggestions

That’s it for the three count today, we’ll be back tomorrow with three more copyright links. If you have a link that you want to suggest a link for the column or have any proposals to make it better. Feel free to leave a comment or send me an email. I hope to hear from you.

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1: Kindle’s DRM Rears Its Ugly Head… And It IS Ugly

First off today, the Amazon Kindle is in the spotlight for a little bit of DRM fail. Blogger Dan Cohen from Gear Diary writes about a problem he had with his Kindle subscription after both getting a new iPhone and resetting both his iPod Touch and his iPhone for the new version of the operating system.

When Cohen went to re-download his books, he found that it couldn’t be done because he had run up against a cap on the number of downloads. Worse still, he found that the maximum number of downloads is not known, even to Amazon’s representatives, and there is no way for one to find out what the exact limit is.

This means that, when you buy a book on the Kindle, you have no way of knowing how many times you can download it, including for device updates, before you have to repurchase the book, something that has left Cohen, and many others, with a bad taste in their mouth.

2: Anti-Piracy Lawyers Lose License To Chase Pirates

Next up, if you’re a file sharer in Norway, you’re just a little bit safer today. The data protection law there instructs ISPs to delete IP data after three weeks and the only law firm that had a license to track pirates had their temporary license end without any renewal forthcoming. This means that, unless the law firm is successful with its objection, there will effectively be no way to track file sharers in Norway.

The reason, according to Torrentfreak, is because there was not a great deal of political debate over the collection of IP addresses and, without any guidance, the data protection authorities decided not to renew the license.

3: Obama in cyberspace

Finally today, author and copyright reform advocate James Boyle penned an article about how Obama’s copyright policies may shape up.

In the column, he first hints that Obama might have weighed multiple interests and been a truly fresh start in many ways for copyright but, in the end, recent indications about the appointment of Obama’s Copyright Czar and the administration’s opposition to exemptions to assist the visually impaired, according to Boyle, indicate that his is, more or less, towing the industry line.

Obviously this is a disappointment to Boyle and many who voted for Obama expecting such reforms.

Suggestions

That’s it for the three count today, we’ll be back tomorrow with three more copyright links. If you have a link that you want to suggest a link for the column or have any proposals to make it better. Feel free to leave a comment or send me an email. I hope to hear from you.

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Earlier this week, Amazon announced its Kindle Publishing for Blogs service that lets bloggers put their sites on the Kindle and charge a small monthly subscription fee. Unfortunately though, it seems to come with a very serious weakness.

Late last night, TechCrunch reported that Josh Fraser, the co-founder of EventVue, had managed to set up a duplicate of TechCrunch’s blog in the Kindle store, allowing him to offer paid subscriptions to TechCrunch’s feed and profit from those subscriptions.

In short, anyone can offer paid subscriptions to just about any blog, even if that blog has already been registered for the Kindle earlier. This is, to put it modestly, a huge hole in the Kindle blog registration process and one that needs to be closed quickly.

How it Works

The process of registering your blog for the Kindle is fairly simple. You first create an account with Amazon specific to this service (Note: You can not use your current Amazon account) and provide it with your banking and other personal information (to enable payment). You then provide Amazon with an RSS feed to your blog, two images, one of the logo and one thumbnail of the site itself and then preivew/submit it.

Amazon will take a while to approve the blog, though it warns it takes 48-72 hours mine was approved in under 12, and it sets the price that is going to be charged. When it is all said and done, Amazon keeps 70% of the revenue from the blog subscriptions and bloggers get to keep 30%.

The problem with this, at least as far as content theft is concerned, is that Amazon does absolutely no checks to make sure the person registering the feed owns the site. No hidden files to upload, no meta tags to insert and no need to register from an @domain.com email. Anyone, anytime, anyplace can create a subscription for any site they please. All that is needed is a bank account, a tax ID and a few images of the site.

The only thing that would prevent this misuse is Amazon’s approval process. However, as TechCrunch pointed out, even when a blog was officially registered, the approval process sometimes let other versions slip through. The good news, however, is that Amazon has since gone through and removed the fake blogs, but it remains to be seen if and how they will handle the situation when lesser-known blogs become the victim.

What Can Be Done

The honest answer here is not a lot at the moment. I would definitely double check and make sure that your blog is not available for the Kindle and report it if your site appears without your permission.

Fortunately, it doesn’t seem like this problem is going to be very widespread. First off, the requirement to hand over so much personal information will likely scare off most scammers. Second, only the most popular blogs would generate anywhere near the traffic and subscribership to be worthwhile. Finally, Amazon seems to be shutting down these fake blogs fairly quickly, making them far less than profitable ventures.

That being said, the fact that it has happened and that the lacking security will allow it to happen again, that means it is only a matter of time before one slips through the cracks, doesn’t get removed and someone manages to make at least a small amount selling another’s work on the Kindle. It may not be the end of the world or even the largest content misuse problem, but it is very annoying and a worrisome possibility to those who might want to explore these avenues on their own.

Amazon, if it values this service and doesn’t want to spend all of its time and manpower filtering out bogus blog subscriptions (not to mention risking the wrath of angry customers who pay for subscriptions only to have them closed), they need to install some check to make sure the author or owner of the blog is the one submitting it. It is that simple.

Some Personal Thoughts

I actually see mistakes like this all of the time. Tech companies, including large ones like Amazon, for the most part, were founded on the idea of building products and services that help good people do great things. Whether they’re building an online office suite, the latest RSS reader or something else altogether, companies always think first and foremost about what good they can do and how great their product will be.

The problem is that some never stop to realize that not all of the people are good and not everyone approaches a product with benign intentions. This goes well beyond just copyright concerns but it leads companies to make absolutely stupid mistakes when it comes to security and to headaches like these. The worst part is that many products, in order to make them remotely safe, have to be completely crippled and made almost useless.

We can joke all we want about tech company CEOs being evil or vile, but the truth of the matter is they are usually just drunk off of their own product’s perceived potential and are oblivious to the pitfalls. Amazon is not the first company to make an obvious blunder like this and they will not be the last.

Let us hope that Amazon responds appropriately and takes some reasonable precautions to protect bloggers from having their content sold without their permission.

Bottom Line

In the end, it is important to be aware of this issue but also rest assured it probably will not affect you or your site unless you run a top-tier blog. However, that doesn’t make it any less annoying or potentially dangerous, especially if Amazon begins to slack off on its enforcement.

In the meantime, I think the more annoying things about the Kindle for Blogs system is that it can feel like a rip off, even to the authors who want their work to be there. Not only can they not choose their pricing, but Amazon keeps the lion’s share of the revenue. While I recognize that they have expenses in delivering the blog to their devices, they also don’t have the expenses in producing the content.

Still, since I am committed to making this site available on as many platforms as possible and have no real issue with it being on the Kindle, I did add Plagiarism Today to the site. You can subscribe to PT via Kindle here. For the site, Amazon chose a price of $1.99 per month. I wanted to make the site free but the option was not available. As such, in the unlikely event I see any revenue from the Kindle I’ll promise now to donate it to Creative Commons.

So, if anyone wants to spend $2 per month to read PT on a Kindle, have fun. Personally, I think most people would be much happier getting it for free via RSS as they do now…

1: Wikipedia community vote on migration to CC BY-SA begins now

First off today, in a move that could change the future of both the free culture movement and Wikipedia, there is a vote underway regarding converting the online encyclopedia from the Free Documentation License, a license that was aimed at instructional documents, to a Creative Commons BY-SA license, its rough equivalent of the CC licenses.

Though the two licenses are founded on most of the same principles, differences in the specific requirements prevent them from being completely compatible. As such, Wikipedia is holding a vote, in which anyone with over 25 edits can participate, The Creative Commons Organization, obviously, supports this initiative.

The move is motivated by two main factors. The first that the CC licenses have become the de facto standard for copyleft licensing by authors on the Web, making full compatibility an issue, and that the Free Documentation License comes with several restrictions, including the the need to distribute the copy of the license with every use.

2: Busted for taking camera to Hannah Montana movie

Next up, a Chicago-area couple was arrested this week for attempting to record the new Hannah Montana movie, apparently as part of a larger-scale DVD piracy operation. Police arrested the couple for balancing a video camera during a showing of the movie and, after a search of their home, found 44,000 CDs and DVDs containing pirated movies.

The couple, however, denies that they were involved with any piracy scheme, saying that the DVDs belonged to the mother of the husband.

Both the husband and the wife have been charged with criminal misuse of a motion-picture facility and the husband also faces charges of unlawful use of a sound-recording device, computer fraud and online sale of stolen property.

3: Returning Product To Amazon Could Brick Your Kindle

Finally today, if you are an Amazon customer and have a Kindle, you may want to be aware that returning too many items to Amazon could result in your account being banned and, if that happens, your Kindle, which is attached to your account, may become a nice paperweight.

The problem stems from the fact that the Kindle is tied to an Amazon account, where all of the purchased books are stored. If the account is banned for returning too many physical goods, it loses access to its electronic data as well.

Though one customer who had this happen to them won on an appeal and had their account and their Kindle restored, it is unnerving to say the least that Amazon could turn the Kindle into a brick.

Suggestions

That’s it for the three count today, we’ll be back tomorrow with three more copyright links. If you have a link that you want to suggest a link for the column or have any proposals to make it better. Feel free to leave a comment or send me an email. I hope to hear from you.

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