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Originally Posted by nekokami
Steve, are your books actually being pirated on the darknet?
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No. At least I've never seen any show up in searches on the various p2p apps I use, and I think I've only seen one on usenet in the last year or so. It may be there's a secret cabal who pass around his books, and my invitation to it got lost, but it really does seem that Steve obsesses endlessly over something that's far from a plague. (And the posted book was in imp format, at that, which is limited and all but unconvertable.)
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Originally Posted by nekokami
My impression is that Baen books, for example, aren't that popular on the darknet
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True, although you can find some of them. I depend on finding the
Grantville Gazette volumes that way. With Steve's books, the problem seems more obscurity than being copied willy-nilly.
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Originally Posted by nekokami
we can all spout theories and rationales about how much effect piracy is having on ebooks and authors, but we're all just guessing
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And it will go on, and on, and on. It's a mania for some. Moralists ever will lecture. Why let mundane reality get in the way?