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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
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.
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.
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I'm sorry to hear that, but not really surprised. It seems to me that after a while the only authors we'd have access to would be the huge mega giants like Patterson who would make their living via movie rights and aftermarket etc, rather than book sales. And the world would be a much poorer place.