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Originally Posted by Xenophon
But when you talk about "piracy in general," do you really mean that you believe that authors should not be paid for their work?  |
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Originally Posted by BillSmithBooks
Quote: "I support piracy in general," i.e. authors should not be paid according to this argument.
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I can't speak for Jaime Astorga, but you two are making quite a jump here. When JA says "I support piracy in general," I assume he's talking about so-called piracy
as it exists: present means of file-sharing at more or less present volumes, not a fictional world in which file-sharing is the only means by which anything gets distributed.
As things are, the author gets paid AND their works are more widely distributed, increasing the odds that they get paid more, and more often, down the road. The extent to which file-sharing does impact sales is precisely the extent to which publishers (of any media) are pressured to reform their business models and distribution schemes, and creators are pressured to find publishers who can handle the new realities.