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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Tell ya what: Don't bother. There are plenty of pirate sites to download it from... be my guest. You (and everyone else who reads this) have my explicit blessing... go steal my books. I've thrown in the towel, as of today... no more books from me for the foreseeable future. I'm tired of fighting the pirates.
Pirates win.  |
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Ultimately, it is my choice whether to accept being stolen from, or not. Faced with a world that clearly doesn't care if I'm being stolen from, since they can still get my work regardless... I choose not to accept it.
If I don't produce books... they can't be stolen. Problem solved.
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Oh, my. The part about the world not caring is familiar, because there was a similar theme in the old thread where you seemed to insinuate that the majority of people are either pirates or pirates-waiting-to-happen.
But the part where you throw up your hands and surrender to the pirates is new. If it were almost anyone else, I would call it a flounce.
But you're not someone else - you're an author whose work I have just started reading recently, and I was enjoying it. I was becoming a fan. And so I'll say this as a fan:
This makes me feel like crap. The pirates have won, alright, because you put them first. All I hear is "I did want you wanted and you stole from me anyway." No, you did what we wanted and
someone else stole from you anyway. Those people would have done so no matter what. But I wouldn't have. Not in a million years.