Steve, I'm going to be blunt here: You're paranoid. Your books are no more affected by unauthorized copying than anyone else's are. Some people are making a lot more money from their books (despite said copying) than you are. Since the unauthorized distribution affects both you and them (and every other author) equally, the variable controlling your sales must be something else. It might be your marketing. It might be your writing. It might be your lack of sparkly vampires and insipid high school girls. It might be something else. But whatever it is, it has to be something that's different for your books than other people's books.
There are already laws against copying and distributing your books. People are breaking them. What do you want -- the death penalty?
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