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Originally Posted by Over
Again, on the other hand, more and more authors try their luck. There's no market for millions of writers. And with forums, blogs and lack of proper marketing from most inexperient authors, the good are easily separated from the mediocre or bad.
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It seems to me that, with so many writers, the good writers are NOT easily separated from the bad. There may be better resources for doing so in the future, but I don't see that working too well yet.
As far as people doing the right thing: It seems to depend on circumstances. People are more likely to do the right thing in public, especially among friends or stangers who may look disfavorably on them. Alone, or with people that they believe are sympathetic to their behavior, they are more likely to do whatever they think they can get away with. That's why piracy can be so pervasive, because it can be done privately, in forums filled with like-minded strangers, and no one nearby to condemn the behavior.