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Originally Posted by NVash
First you said you were alerted by Google about a download link, now you know of a torrent? Im wondering where this torrent is, does it have any comments? Anyone say anything about it? Is it well seeded? Does it have a listing as to how many times its been downloaded? Or is it completely dead? Does it have any other books or are they all just you?
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I get regular Google alerts about torrents and free download pages (the free download page is the most recent, I got that on Easter). I used to check the torrents when I found them; now, I just note, without documenting, their existence. The torrents encompass books by me and others, and the download links are sites that are filled with books that, I'm sure, are not authorized to be sold there for free, with individual pages per book.
Beyond that, I don't collect further data on them. It's not worth my time.
I don't try to quantify loss through piracy. To me, it's obvious that there is a loss, however many books it might be. The quantity isn't as important as the fact that consumers want me to believe that it is acceptable for me to be stolen from... whereas I doubt any of them allow themselves to be stolen from in like fashion.