If you want to read a well-crafted polemic against efforts that try to reconcile digital access to books with authors interests, this I think, is a good example

If you want to read a well-crafted polemic against efforts that try to reconcile digital access to books with authors interests, this I think, is a good example. It creates FUD by mentioning "stolen goods", stigmatizes academics that push for free access to information as "simply promoting their own careers over the livelihoods of other writers". Especially preposterous, was the claim that book piracy in Russia was to blame for the fact that "... in the country of Tolstoy and Chekhov, few Russians, let alone Westerners, can name a contemporary Russian author whose work regularly affects the national conversation."