Thread: E-reads and Curtis Agency Declare War on Piracy
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Old 09-01-2011, 01:07 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Barty View Post
So they send the author a ton of links. The author gets to go download them to check if they're for real. That sounds like fun.

What actually happens: author gets a long list, looks through a few, then says yep that looks like my book, company sends out mass DMCA notices, a few innocent sites get snared, bad PR ensues.
I've yet to see anyone who takes an anti-piracy stance get anything but bad publicity, regardless of whether they make mistakes or not. For what little (or any) benefit you would get from removing unauthorised copies it's just not worth it.
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