Edit: Okay, I should have read the next page before replying.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Not quite. This is a case of I was never going to buy it. So because of that, I've not taken a sale away from the author.
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You miss my point here. Author A might not lose out, because you'd never have bought his book, but if you weren't reading the pirate copy of author A's book, you'd have (hypothetically) bought and read author B's book, so author B is losing out.
Your reading time is finite, so time spent reading pirate books is not spent reading paid-for books.
Of course, it might not be spent reading at all, or your total reading time might increase if you have access to better books, but it's something to bear in mind.
I don't intend to DRM my books. It's simply a matter of being nice to my customers.