One sideways point I got out of the article. There is this quote:
Quote:
Shannon wrote on Twitter that “the thing that’s really exhausting about piracy is that authors are often not allowed to be upset by theft of their work. If we ask people not to do it, no matter how courteously, we’re told we should have more compassion or be grateful we even have readers. Outside the creative industry, people broadly dislike theft. Within the creative industry, it becomes a grey area where people aren’t sure.”
“Authors who ask you not to pirate are not attacking people who are too poor to afford books, or people who genuinely can’t access libraries,” wrote Shannon
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The thing is, I do believe that if authors gripe about piracy, they do get grief. An author I've never heard of has caused this thread, for instance.
Would it come off as rude if an author were to tweet or write on their blog or whatever something along the lines of "If you can't afford my books and can not get them from the library, I'd rather you not read my books at all than pirate them"?