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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
I'll cite Stephen King's "The Plant" project as a case where unpaid downloads resulted in the financial ruination of the work, causing it to be unfinished and shelved.
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Leaving aside the 400k netted, I still do not understand what this example has to do with piracy? Were the unpaid downloads piracy? It seems to me that those unpaid downloads were just that:
LEGAL unpaid downloads.
You as an author choose the tip bowl, I guess you gotta take the results; if you are not happy with the donations as Mr. King seemed not to have been, that's how it is, but what this has to do with piracy still eludes my mind...
My issue with all this shrill piracy pronouncements and draconian remedies - without any evidence for anything - and leaving aside the sometimes insulting assumptions behind them - is that already e-books have huge hurdles ahead, and adding imaginary ones, especially when you claim you want to promote e-books, well...