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I can second both arguments:
a) darknet container contents:
I often search there myself, because having an already scanned copy of ones pbook spares me the scanning and leaves only (sometimes reformatting) and yet another proofread.
It's indeed so, that most of this packages are made by hoarders. If it says "Sci-fi Collection" it goes from Anderson to Zelazny.
What matters to them is to have it all - they neither check, correct nor update.
That's one of the reasons I avoid 'em like hell (apart from the fact that I don't want to d/l 1463 books I don't have in paper equal to 1 something GB of data or more just to get the 6 I actually looked for)
Want to have fun? make a torrent of your books yourself - replacing the equivalent of every 3rd prime number of a standard page with lorem ipsum I bet it will get leeched and reseeded completely cause the hoarders don't care.
b) writing and money
As 't has been said before I also think, that authors actually having even a sort of semi-income from their work are big exceptions. Landing that a big hit is indeed equal to winning the lottery. This can be even better observed in another niche - Role playing games - I could point you to authors having written masterpieces of rulebooks and being recognized worldwide for, yet not living of it.
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