Thread: Book 'pirate' goes underground after being named by Terry Goodkind
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Old 07-12-2012, 11:57 AM   #50
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Originally Posted by Catlady View Post
I don't condone the piracy, or the stupidity of bragging about it, but it still seems to me that the author's response was totally disproportionate.

There are a lot of nuts. Suppose some misguided fan were to go after this pirate--that would be Goodkind's responsibility.

I think that a letter threatening legal action would probably have been more than enough.

I don't know anything about this author, but I now have an image of him as a nasty jerk and a self-righteous bully.
I disagree.

A letter threatening legal action would probably have done nothing or, at best, removed this one download source.

However - publicly outing the uploader has caused a big media hit and has shown a lot of other people who upload IP that it actually has consequences.

Considering the number of people sued for uploading (Approaching zero) and the legal expenses incurred I think more people should use the "Name and Shame" method.
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