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Originally Posted by jasonkchapman
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.
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But it's the AUTHOR who gets to decide what HE wants to do about it. Or the publisher if the author had entered into agreements that give such decisions over to the publisher.
It's perfectly reasonable for an author to decide that he doesn't WANT folks stealing from him -- whether the theft loses him money or not. It's perfectly reasonable for an author to decide that pirated books are great advertising and at least he's being read.
I don't like DRM myself. I personally think it hurts real genuine paying customers more than it stops theft.
Lee