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Originally Posted by Moejoe
This really isn't about rights and wrongs, or stealing from a supermarket, it's about whether you want to embrace reality or fight against it. The reality is your material will be shared if its popular enough and in a digital form. The reality is you can do very little about it, bar firing up the waaambulance. The reality is that if you embrace sharing you gain sales (Coehlo, Doctorow, many others). The reality is that DRM doesn't work. The reality is that people will buy books if they're cheap enough and won't bother to pirate.
Embrace the digital, or GTFO the internet (not you personally, I mean the companies and such  ) |
Whilst this is often true, I don't think Doctorow is the best example to use though he often is. Very few people have the advantage of a platform like boingboing with which to market their work so he is in a slightly more unique position.
However on the whole I agree, the internet has changed the world for good or bad, all people can do now is jump on board and find new ways to make money because wrapping your work up in little parcels and selling it is not going to be as profitable as it once was.