Fortunately Piracy (the cowardly word used by the corporations and their apologists) is alive and well
Many authors are shared every single day and this has zero to little effect on their income and in many studies show that it only helps to improve their sales.
Paulo Coelho and Cory Doctorow are just two of the many authors you can access for free and without any nonsense all over the web. At this point in the copyfight any author who comes out against file sharing I would avoid on principal alone.
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