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Originally Posted by HarryT
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?
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You can look on their blog posts. J.A. Konrath used to have a good one about how of course he's being pirated and it seems to do nicely for his business and he doesn't care too much either way. I'm sure you've heard of him, and I would call that, if not pro-piracy then at least not anti-piracy.
There's also "Please Pirate This Book" blog posts all over the internet, for anyone who cares to look.
http://www.40kbooks.com/?p=12879
http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjourn...paulo_co.shtml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012...s-pirate-books
http://emergentchaos.com/archives/20...ks-please.html
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/edito...oks-please-663
http://torrentfreak.com/my-book-please-081017/
http://jonathandallen.com/2012/01/18...rds-on-piracy/
Most of those are established authors. And that was about 30 seconds of Googling. Maybe you would want to have a conversation on the precise definition of "many", but it's certainly not "ludicrous in the extreme" that some authors are very publicly pro-piracy as regards their works. I would say "many" if you can find this many on a single Google search with no search tweaks whatsoever. And these are just the authors who
write about being pro-piracy.
And I've seen a dozen other famous (relatively speaking) indie authors say and do the same things. It's okay that you don't know about them, but now that you do, let's please stop talking about authors as a hive-mind of people who all feel the same way about piracy.
