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Originally Posted by tompe
There is no evidence that piracy cut into the income for the authors that do not sell so much.
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There is no way to effectively measure *how much* piracy cuts into the income of mid-level authors. That's not the same as no evidence that it does so. Even if not a single pirated copy replaces a paid copy, the fact that they're not downloaded from official, sanctioned sources means that the author has no reader statistics to bring to publishers to prove his popularity.
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Seeing a lot less of the bad writing might be a good thing. I do not see why we must support all the people that want to write. Should that principle hold for anything a person want to do?
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You think more piracy & less payment of authors = less bad writing?
As much as I enjoy a great deal of fantastic writing that's available for free, I know it's outweight more than tenfold by atrocious writing. Sturgeon's law applies to professional work; for amateurs and students, it's probably closer to 99% that's worthless.