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Originally Posted by anamardoll
And you appear to be suggesting that all these people have a monolithic opinion about how their intellectual property should be protected. Can you... please stop doing that? There are many authors who are pro-piracy and genuinely believe that it helps them financially. Piracy is a very complicated and complex issue and pretending it isn't is not conducive to discussion, I think. Nor is implicitly disappearing people and corporations who are in favor of 'piracy' of their works as forms of advertising -- these people do exist, after all. 
/spoken as someone who has a book and would be very happy if people were to torrent that sucker. |
I'm afraid that I find your assertion that "many authors are pro-piracy" ludicrous in the extreme. Do you have any evidence to support this claim?