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Before I begin, I would like to wholeheartedly thank all those people, and you are in a fantastic moral majority, thankfully, who have paid for my book. Whether you loved it or hated it or fed it to the dog, thank you.
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The "Before I begin" pretty much sums up the whole of why he hates piracy. The idea that someone might know what they are buying and that only the people who LIKE the book may end up buying it.
One of the reasons I love libraries (there are a few people who equate library lending with piracy because people are sampling content without paying) is that I now no longer waste my money on swill that looked good on the cover or in the Globe and Mail's review, but I wholeheartedly buy books/movies/music that I absolutely cannot live without rather than just blindly throwing money at everything. I used to pay full price for books that were utter garbage prior to that. Now, I buy discriminately.
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Cory Doctorow article in Boing Boing indicating that some pirates tend to be the actual biggest purchasers of legit content, and a commenter pretty much said what I just said above:
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I'm pretty sure the reason business hate piracy is simply because they can't get away with selling utter shit to the unsuspecting. This has been their M.O. for a very long time and the internet is making it near impossible for them to keep doing it.
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I think people for the most part, feel "entitled" to put their money into things that actually mean something to them!