The audiobook for Fire and Fury is posted to youtube.

[Volaris]

this is at Shit Be Cray level, for sure...

[SummerSnow]

1. Where's the popcorn

[KewlKat]

2. Thank you. I bought my first kindle book, no kindle and totally lost. Hubby is not happy.

Maybe listening to this he'll chill until the hardback book arrives in ?

[Thomas Hurt]

8. you can download the kindle reader app onto your laptop, phone or PC I believe.

[hlthe2b]

10. yes this. I read on my pc laptop, my iphone, my ipad with the kindle app (free)

[PoliticAverse]

9. You can read kindle books on PCs, MACs, iPhones/iPads, and Android phones with appropriate software.

Kindle reader for PCs:
https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Digital-Services-LLC-Download/dp/B00UB76290

Kindle reader for MAC:
https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Digital-Services-LLC-Download/dp/B00UB769KC

Kindle reader for Android phone:
https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-com-Kindle-for-Android/dp/B004DLPXAO

Kindle reader for iPhone:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amazon-kindle/id302584613?mt=8

[KewlKat]

13. THANK YOU ALL that responded to my post. Downloaded a kindle reader thing and he's good to go.

[brooklynite]

3. Not legally...

...Why deny Wolff his income?

[enough]

6. Good point, would you say it's ok to listen if you have already ordered the hard copy? NT

[brooklynite]

12. No - the vocal artist isn't getting any return from a hard copy purchase.

[bluestarone]

19. does author get anything from Amazon?

[Cal Carpenter]

22. The author gets royalities from its publisher

for copies sold. Not Amazon directly.

[samnsara]

27. who published this online? was it a trumper trying to kill the book sales?

..ive got mine coming so I will listen to this after wards. altho I'm damned tempted to right now!

[cwydro]

48. Amazing, isnt it?

Smh.

[enough]

4. Thank you! Where did you find this?

[oberliner]

5. This has got to be illegal

[Brother Buzz]

7. Nothing like listening to an audiobook while having a cheeseburger in bed.

[Kirk Lover]

11. Well aren't you just the sweetest for posting this! Thank you!! Now I have to figure out a way to

dump my plans for the day. I don't even want to go out it's soooooo cold, and now this book was posted...what to do what to do.

[oberliner]

15. It's a clear violation of the author's rights

Does that not bother anyone?

[Kirk Lover]

16. To be honest not much. I got over that awhile ago when first I purchased records, then cassettes,

then CD,s and then they wanted my money again for digital. I said that's it I'm downloading. And that is how I have fallen from grace.

[Old Vet]

21. I agree kirk lover, my moral compass has changed in reference to this

[oberliner]

30. OK fair enough

I have to say it bugs me a little bit.

[Pope George Ringo II]

31. While I admit that books haven't played that game nearly as badly as music or movies

I think the lesson we learned buying all that stuff on multiple formats was that we weren't actually buying the content, just the physical container.

I'm not going to give you any crap about it, and I'll come out and confess that a big part of the reason I'm buying rather than listening is because I'm one of those people who reads better than I hear.

[pnwmom]

41. Then only listen to this version if you have already purchased a print version.

Otherwise, your argument doesn't hold water.

[Kirk Lover]

43. I know my argument doesn't make any sense pertaining to the books...

shhhh nobody caught on to that !!!

[Beaverhausen]

47. Wrong

It’s not right to take something you didn’t pay for.

[Gabi Hayes]

14. From the same YouTube page, some yoks

“Is he lying, or is he disclosing confidential information?”

[displacedtexan]

17. keepvid.com (to capture youtube videos, if you're interested)

Copy the url of the video, paste it into the box at keepvid.com, and click the little arrow immediately to the right. I couldn't make it work on the ipad, but it worked on my hp laptop. I saved the file as 480p and moved it from downloads onto my desktop.

There are 2 parts to the audiobook on youtube.

As for legality issues, I bought the ibook yesterday and I have no intention of listening to the audio version. I just wanted to see if I could do it.

[dalton99a]

20. Or use "1-Click YouTube Video Downloader" add-on, if using Firefox

[dixiegrrrrl]

24. Also, SMPlayer has a youtube download/watch option.

I use it because Youtube videos at the site give me bad buffering problems.

[lindysalsagal]

18. Great! I didn't want Donny to miss out! Now, even HE can hear it!

[bluestarone]

23. i see no laws broken if

the you tube poster is NOT getting financial benefit tho

[Jim Lane]

25. It's clearly a copyright violation.

If you break into a house, steal someone's stuff, and then give away everything you stole, getting no financial benefit yourself -- it's still a crime.

[spanone]

26. YEP.

people can justify stealing in many ways.

[bluestarone]

29. and all the songs and clips posted there?

i don't think so

[Jim Lane]

33. You're saying the behavior is common, so it must be legal?

Sorry, that doesn't follow.

What's actually going on is that technology has made it very difficult, as a practical matter, for copyright owners to obtain the protection they're entitled to. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, YouTube can't be held liable just because someone posted infringing material. Instead, the procedure is that the copyright holder sends YouTube a DMCA takedown notice. Only then does YouTube have an obligation to remove the video. (There are procedures for contesting the takedown, for example if there's an argument for a fair-use defense.)

The problem is that, while a music publisher is sending a takedown notice about a song, three other fans are posting the same song. The whack-a-mole process involves so much effort for so little result that a lot of copyright holders just don't bother.

It's still illegal, though. Occasionally, clicking on a YouTube link, you'll see a notice that the video is no longer available. This is often because, in that instance, the copyright holder has decided it's worthwhile to enforce its legal rights.

[bluestarone]

35. great then problem solved

This is the times we live in, and that will be the only response (Video removed per copyright) If people disagree they DO NOT have to view or listen to what is there! A person has a right to post, it's between them and book author or video owner! So i'm sure NO ONE will get charged with anything OTHER than please remove it!

[Jim Lane]

39. It absolutely does NOT solve the problem.

Some people have already downloaded the infringing material. I think that, under the DMCA, YouTube is given two weeks to comply, so add in the time it takes for the takedown notice to be sent plus the time it takes YouTube to act and we can assume that plenty more people will download. All this hurts the copyright holder's legitimate rights.

If your house is burglarized, and the police eventually get back most of your stuff, that does not mean "problem solved."

[Beaverhausen]

46. Wrong. Clips illegally posted are taken down all the time

Posting this was wrong.

[Lee-Lee]

32. Then you dont understand the law

Copyright laws and intellectual property laws don’t care if the person had any personal or financial gain.

[djg21]

40. Contributory infringement.

One who knowingly induces, causes or materially contributes to copyright infringement, by another but who has not committed or participated in the infringing acts him or herself, may be held liable as a contributory infringer if he or she had knowledge, or reason to know, of the infringement. See, e.g., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., 545 U.S. 913 (2005); Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984).

Financial benefit is not an element of infringement. And even where a copyright owner cannot prove damages, it can obtain statutory damages of $150,000 for willful infringement and attorney’s fees.

You shouldn’t post about things you know nothing about.

DU also should be on notice that it now faces exposure to liability thanks to Goonch, who posted this crap on multiple DU forums.

[pnwmom]

44. You don't understand copyright laws. Anyone who shares a full copy of a published work

without permission is violating the law, whether they make money on it or not.

[AlexSFCA]

28. you cant hide from number one book

no copyright law is powerful enough. Wolff had unprecedented access to the white house that belongs to the people. The people should have access to the book. This isn’t fiction.

[djg21]

36. This is complete bullshit.

Posting the audiobook to YouTube was an intentional infringement, and if you are downloading and listening to the audiobook without permission of the copyright holder you are infringing as well. There is no justification even if you bought the book. Mr. Wolff is entitled to make money from his efforts and artistic (writing) ability and there can be no justification for stealing from him.

[pnwmom]

42. +1. n/t

[gvstn]

34. I just give a recap I found in a comments section.

So here's the full Fire & Fury list from everything I collated. Y'all can remind me if I forgot anything.

1) Trump's aides say he doesn't read and 'for all practical purposes is no more than semi-literate'
2) Whole campaign planned for defeat; Trump himself planning TV network because he'd be 'most famous man in the world'
3) Trump assured Melania he wouldn't win as she wanted to go back to regular life, she openly wept election night of misery
4) Staff on Trump: "semi-literate", "dope", "dumb as ****", "hopeless idiot", "just a f**ing fool', 'lost his mind', 'incapable of functioning in his job'
5) Trump tells the same stories three times in ten minutes and forgot a succession of old friends' names at a Mar-a-Lago party
6) Corey Lewandowski cheated on his wife with Hope Hicks, Hope fled the room after Trump called her 'the best piece of tail' Corey would ever have
7) Bannon on Trump Tower meeting: 'treasonous' and 'unpatriotic'; The "Kushner [real estate] **** is greasy...goes through Deutsche Bank...it's all about money laundering"
8) Bannon: Mueller will crack Don Jr. like an egg on national TV
9) Bannon: 'Zero' chance Donald Trump didn't know about the meeting, Don Jr likely 'walked them to his father's office'
10) Bannon abused wife at former meth and **** lair in Miami, after leaked report Trump gave him nickname 'Bam Bam'
11) Katie Walsh on Trump: 'Like a child'
12) Stephen Miller had to look up "how to write Executive Order" on Google to formulate travel ban during transition
13) Mark Corallo quit because he thought the Air Force One meeting constituted obstruction of justice
14) Charlie Kushner's panic over Mueller looking into Jared and Ivanka's finances spurred Trump's firing of Comey
15) Bannon kept Pence out of meetings with Jared/Ivanka as 'fallback guy' because he thought they were too involved with Russia
16) The president called acting attorney general Sally Yates a 'c***' after she refused to enforce his immigration ban
17) Henry Kissinger: The White House has become a "war between the Jews and the non-Jews"
18) Bannon on Ivanka: "dumb as a brick"
19) Trump kept trying to rationalize to staff after Charlottesville why someone would join the KKK
20) Trump offered to marry Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough - and mocked Jared Kushner for saying he'd do it
21) Ivanka: Trump's hair is orange from an impatience with 'Just for Men', head shaped strange from scalp-reduction surgery, combs over from sides
22) Trump orders so much McDonalds so he's not poisoned; regularly sits in bed at 6:30 eating a cheeseburger calling friends and watching 3 TVS
23) Trump wondered what a 'golden shower' was after reading reports about the notorious Russian dossier
24) Trump would try to bed his friends' wives by goading their husbands to cheat while the wife listened in on speakerphone
25) He called Jared Kushner a 'suck-up' and said he should never have let Ivanka and her husband move to Washington
26) Trump on staff: Conway 'crybaby', Spicey 'stupid', Reince 'weak'/'midget', Bannon 'disloyal'/'looked like s***'
27) Told housekeeping not to touch his toothbrush, berated them endlessly for not leaving shirts on the floor; strips own bedsheets after weeks on end
28) Trump and Melania sleep in separate bedrooms, he demanded a lock on his bedroom door against the wishes of the Secret Service
29) Didn't know who John Boehner was on multiple occasions
30) Ailes on Trump: Don't give him too much to think about
31) Murdoch on Trump: A ****ing idiot
32) Tom Barrack on Trump: He's not only crazy, he's stupid
33) Sean Spicer: Said 'You can't make up this ****' after first briefing, made it personal mantra and doubted if he'd ever work again
34) Trump ignored Ann Coulter's consistent warnings about hiring his kids
35) Ivanka considered running for president
36) Ivanka insisted Kellyanne first be pulled from cable for her 'idiotic militancy'
37) Kellyanne frequently mocked Trump behind the scenes in just facial expressions, expressing a 'visceral distaste' for him
38) Tucker Carlson was considered for Sean Spicer's role
39) Jared and Bannon each ran their own communication shops, leaking to media separately stories disparaging about each other
40) Trump was obsessed with Maggie Haberman's stories in the New York Times despite her critical portrayals of him
41) Trump wanted Rudy Giuliani for SCOTUS
42) Trump saw Jared as Secretary of State

[Bayard]

37. THANK YOU!

Now I don't have to buy the book.

[cwydro]

49. Wow. nt

[AlexSFCA]

38. good job

[Jersey Devil]

45. This is clearly and unquestionably a copyright violation

I have no idea why this OP has lasted this long but DU, once aware of it, will definitely take it down.