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Old 07-24-2009, 04:14 PM   #281
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Originally Posted by tompe View Post
There is no evidence that piracy cut into the income for the authors that do not sell so much.
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?
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.
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