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I have found over internet furniture and media storage devices I had designed, that were clearly copied. Initial shock had me ranting and raving for years... uselessly. I feel what authors do violently.
Fortunately, someone invented fashion where in you create, flood the market, skim it and skip to something else. This is the beauty of creativity, you're never stuck, just move ahead of it. It hits you only if you sit on your laurels. Some authors have learned this and live only off of what they have just recently produced. I know it's angering to submit to defeat but you have to make do with your losses to piracy, bounce back and show them you can.
I believe in protection of copyright, what I decry is that it is not the author who is the worst off but the sycophants who surround him. But hey, they have to live too!
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