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Wherever there is fear there will be companies taking advantage of that fear to fleece people out of money in return for bogus services. They are only targetting cyberlockers, which are just a tiny percentage of the overall filesharing "community" (for want of a better expression). Downloads from those sources, even for popular/well known books never reach triple figures, most are lucky to reach 20.
People have always had ways of getting free reads, but the world still spun and people still bought new books, with lots of those buyers first discovering their favourite writer from one of those free reads.
Me, I'd rather become someone's favourite writer some time than pay someone to make sure that never happens. But if for some reason you want to remain obscure, save yourself $15 a month and set up a free Google alert for your name (or name of your book if you didn't choose a name with no other Google hits). That won't just get you the copies on cyberlockers, it will get you the copies everywhere else too.
Just don't go looking at how few people download them though, that just gets depressing.
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