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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
Honestly, I'd be honored to have my stuff up on the pirate bay.
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Easy. Create a torrent file of your stuff, and upload it.
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Yes, that seems a bit counter intuitive, but think of it this way. If pirates (while that's not the correct term for them, since everyone here calls them pirates anyways, I may as well use the term, even though it's grammatically and technically incorrect) won't share your stuff, then it's either not worth sharing, or you're not known well enough to be worth pirating. It's sorta like all the copycat acts in the music industry. The more people there are doing covers of your songs, the more popular you likely are. The same goes for books. If you're not worth pirating, they won't pirate you. So if you get pirated, consider it an achievement.
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It's not counter intuitive at all.
Back when the RIAA was making waves going after music sharers, the ones demonstrably being hurt by the practice were the multi-platinum stadium acts that
everybody wanted. The new and mid-list bands might just be happy at the exposure: more people would hear their music.
(An old friend is leader of a band. They've had a couple of major label and a batch of indie label releases. They have a following, and make their living touring. He'd like you to buy their CDs, but it you rip them to MP3 and share them with your friends, fine by him - the more people who hear their music, the more who will come to see them when they play.)
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And no, I'm not condoning piracy. I'm merely pointing out a fact that pirates only pirate what they feel is worth something. The only exception might be if you're offering something they feel is worth it for free from another location. If it's free, and easy to get, they won't pirate it usually.
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Yes and no. For instance, a little poking around reveals torrents for stuff you can get through the Baen Free Library, but I haven't seen any thus far for the non-free titles Baen
sells through Webscriptions. Baen's stuff is not encumbered by DRM, and it would be dead easy for someone who bought it to
make it a torrent, but it doesn't seem to be happening.
Baen seems to have created a culture among Webscriptions buyers of "We will share the freely available stuff far and wide to promote Baen and the authors we like, but we
won't share the stuff you need to buy. Baen is offering everyone a good deal, and we're not about to pee in the soup!"
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Dennis