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The problem most authors (artists) face is not piracy, but obscurity. Not condoning piracy, but simply an observation. (I'm skeptical that people who pirate t
by c0riander 16y ago
The problem most authors (artists) face is not piracy, but obscurity.
Not condoning piracy, but simply an observation. (I'm skeptical that people who pirate the e-books would necessarily otherwise purchase them, so I'm always uncertain about estimates of "losses" like in this article. Many times someone will download it to just check it out, similar to flipping through it in a bookstore, which you don't have to pay for.)
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- nochiel 16y agoI feel it is instructive that we remember Tim O'Reilly's incisive piece titled "Piracy is progressive taxation"[0]. It makes little sense to claim that an author/musician is losing money through piracy when the likelihood is that the [majority of the] pirated copies would not have otherwise been bought. Footnotes. [0] http://tim.oreilly.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html http://tim.oreilly.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html