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Originally Posted by spellbanisher
I don't find the arguments that piracy is hurting the entertainment industry convincing.
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How about the argument that piracy is hurting independent authors, like myself? Piracy is (one of a number of things) preventing me from earning a satisfactory income from my books. How will abandoning copyright laws help me? They certainly won't make people less inclined to download my books and not pay me.
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Originally Posted by spellbanisher
As for your contention that copyright infringement hurts small-time artists--that is unlikely as well. I am not saying that no small-time artist has been hurt, but it is unlikely that in general small-time artists are hurt by infringement.
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Ah. So I'm too small to be stolen from? Wrong. My works are on pirate sites right now. I'm losing money right now. And I'm not alone. (And don't truck out the lame "pirates wouldn't buy anyway" argument, it's the biggest load of gossa since Godzilla ate a Taco Bell.)
The "abandon copyright" idea is as empty and ultimately unproductive as abandoning speeding laws because they don't catch all the speeders.