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Old 04-12-2011, 11:19 AM   #61
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Since I already sell my ebooks at low prices, in multiple formats and with No DRM... and they are still torrented... I consider that I have been proactive. It didn't work. So, let the punishments apply.
Do you have them taken down as soon as they appear? Only I can't find any of your books being pirated anywhere.

Mine doesn't seem to have made it to torrents yet either
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Do you have them taken down as soon as they appear? Only I can't find any of your books being pirated anywhere.

Mine doesn't seem to have made it to torrents yet either
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Do you have them taken down as soon as they appear? Only I can't find any of your books being pirated anywhere.

Mine doesn't seem to have made it to torrents yet either
I get Google alerts that point to the torrented files every few days.

Thanks for looking, though...
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Since I already sell my ebooks at low prices, in multiple formats and with No DRM... and they are still torrented... I consider that I have been proactive. It didn't work. So, let the punishments apply.
I'm sorry to hear this Mr Jordan.

Tobias Buckell's year-long self-publishing experiment also proved your point. He listed his latest work at $0.99 drm-free and no geo restrictions and still he was torrented to the moon and back. Sold only 117 copies that month. He varied his price from $0.99-4.99 and made more at the $4.99 level than the $0.99. And you know the Big 6 publishers love to hear that.
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I never said being stolen from equated to being mugged, etc. However, it's still a crime deserving of punishment. What, you think there are no 7-11 robbers in prison? Hijacking my books are no different.
Stealing is not robbery. And suppose your lost sales are $5. What should the punishment be? What do you get of you steal from 7-11 something worth $5.

Should anybody publishing something that could be ytotally worthless and unsellable then e able to put people in prison if somebody put the book in a bug torrent containing thousands of books?
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Problem with that is, on cloud based services you don't know how many devices you're putting it on. Say you're allowed on upto 5 devices, and you have it on your computer, your ereader and in the cloud. Do you count that as 3, or some other absurd number because of the number of servers that may have the info in that service?
A single file will not be spread across 2 or more servers. You do count it as 3.
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True, not a single work by Mr Ploppy anywhere...
Yeah well I wish they'd hurry up so that I can claim my share of that $15trillion.
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I get Google alerts that point to the torrented files every few days.

Thanks for looking, though...
I think it's because of Esteban "Steve" Jordan.
I don't think with so many good books and so many mass appeal books, you should worry about yours being pirated. Win an award or two, then may be.
In fact I think for most authors it would be first good indication of them doing it right - if somebody (other then them or publisher) will take time to post and download their book. At least it's one step to being known, next one may be being popular.
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I think it's because of Esteban "Steve" Jordan.
Good point, but the files do have my books' names in them, and my full name, Steven Lyle Jordan. And I really don't care why they are in there, because I've done everything I can to give people no reason to put them there. The point is that they're there.
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Speaking of file sharing, I just ran across a site called [removed by moderation] that purports to be "The Biggest eLibrary for your favorite e-Reader." They include current books for a fixed one time only price. While at first blush it seemed like something is wrong, closer inspection showed even worse: Harry Potter books are listed as available (and we know they are not - at least as of now or the near future).

Is this then the first shot at Napsterizing books?
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I don't know but based on the FAQ that may be an illegal download site.
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I get Google alerts that point to the torrented files every few days.
Then what do you do, send one of them DMCA things?
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I don't know but based on the FAQ that may be an illegal download site.
If they've got any of them rare Steven Lyle Jordan ebooks it's a bargain at $40.
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Then what do you do, send one of them DMCA things?
I don't do anything, since I know it's pretty much futile based on the prevailing attitudes towards filesharing.
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If they've got any of them rare Steven Lyle Jordan ebooks it's a bargain at $40.
Not when you can snag it off the darknet for free....it's just a lost sale.
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