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Originally Posted by Doranna Durgin
First of all, thanks for all those thoughts. I'm sorry I snipped them down to representative intro words...I didn't know what else to do, there!
Also, I think maybe I should clarify? I'm not all that upset by the piracy. What I'm trying to figure out is some of what you talked about...ie, the "so what"? of it all. So I'm not wearing my outraged author hat. (What I think of the sites who support piracy while earning advertising bucks is something else again...)
I do think that the ignorance factor is much scarier than the pirating issue, and it's the argument for DRM that gets most of my attention (while not disputing what I've heard here about irritating and inconveniencing the educated reader).
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I've bought books with DRM, and without DRM - I prefer without DRM because I read on more than one device and they don't both support the same DRM. It's a pain, and so I avoid DRM whenever possible.
As for the ignorance factor - you said your Baen fantasies have been pirated more than your other fantasies: Speaking for myself I didn't know you'd written any other fantasies. (I can't speak to things like your Buffy novels, as I don't read TV tie-ins for shows I don't watch.)