>Overcoming Gravity 1st Edition was pirated around August or September of 2012 >Book sales immediately dropped 40% over 3 months. The sales over time went from

>Overcoming Gravity 1st Edition was pirated around August or September of 2012 >Book sales immediately dropped 40% over 3 months. The sales over time went from 60% and kept declining to 25% by 2015-2016 Spurious correlation. Those sales would have declined irrespective of the book being pirated, there have already been enough research debunking the myth that literature sales drop with piracy [0] I understand watching their content getting pirated must be frustrating for smaller creators, but you have to take into account accessibility among people. As Gaben said, Piracy is almost always a service problem. I am one of those who has always condoned piracy. I have consumed countless pirated copies of books, media and software across my childhood, not because I didn't care for ethics, but because I lived in an environment where it was simply impossible for a kid to buy those things the right way - they were either not launched in my country's market at all or if they were, they were priced too high for our family income. Windows 10, for instance, still retails at ₹14799 - the price of an entire (cheap) desktop/laptop computer. Needless to say almost no one actually buys a Windows license here unless it comes preinstalled in a vendor's machine. A kindle copy of Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective costs ₹10135 - almost twice the price of the Kindle itself. [0] https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/59ea4ec1-a19b-11e7-b92d-01aa75ed71a1 https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/59e...