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Originally Posted by sbroome
The part that makes piracy and obscurity mutually exclusive as threats to an author is wrong.
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It might be wrong if it were present in the statement. The point is that obscurity is a greater and
definitely real threat that we can all agree upon, whereas any threat posed by piracy is a matter of debate, and at least somewhat balanced by piracy's capacity to grow your audience, thereby relieving obscurity. The subtext is that obscurity also has the capacity to relieve you of the "threat" of piracy, but nothing is gained from such relief. It's an inverse relationship, which only becomes exclusive if one is either so totally pirated or so totally obscure that the other side of the equation drops to zero.