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Originally Posted by leebase
Is it not likely that authors aren't interested solely in the money aspect? If you don't want to pay me for my work, fine. But you don't then get to enjoy my work. If you enjoy my work that I offer only for pay -- you've stolen from me.
Someone trying to make the point to me, the author, that "it really didn't take money from you" -- that' BESIDE the point. I write for a living, I offer my books for SALE. If I want to give my books away, I will CHOOSE to do so. No one has the right to choose FOR me.
Lee (who isn't an author)
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The money aspect is precisely the point, or rather, the accuracy of the quantity involved. Let's say that I grant you that it is theft, which I never disputed. As an author, my next move is to decide what to do about it. If it's truly costing me a gazillion dollars, it's worth a lot to do something about it. If it's really only costing me pocket change, it's not worth a great deal of effort to change it.
But if it's somewhere in the middle, and I decide to put time and effort (and money) into doing something about it, the question then becomes "What is the most cost effective thing to do?" It might be to do everything in my power to get sites shut down and people arrested and all of that. Or, it might just be to sway some of those folks over to a more support-your-author way of thinking. I don't know. I do, however, feel that reasonable actions rarely follow from unreasonable assumptions.