I'd like to open this topic with a simple principle demonstrated on a balance.
Positive: Piracy implies popularity and can lead to greater popularization.
Negative: For Indies, piracy really does equate a lost opportunity in revenue.
In this blog post I explain which side of the balance I land on, and why:
http://randolphlalonde.blogspot.com/...rd-fringe.html
For those of you without patience or time to read the post, I'll just say that I land on the side against piracy. There's more to it, including what I had to do about my books being pirated, where the pirated copies came from and where they were being hosted, but I'll leave that to the blog post to explain.
So, what I'm looking for in this topic are your thoughts on the balance posted above, other points about EBook piracy.