A book is a poor example from a motivation point of view, as most authors (in Sweden) can't make a living just being an author. Maybe you should ask one of the

A book is a poor example from a motivation point of view, as most authors (in Sweden) can't make a living just being an author. Maybe you should ask one of the three well renowned Swedish authors who publicly supports The Pirate Party. (Linda Skugge, Uni Drougge or Lars Gustafsson). I always wonder what world the people who ask these kinds of question live in. Because sharing of copyrighted works has been widespread for nearly a decade now and it is still, at least here in Sweden, almost impossible to get caught. Still somehow authors, artist and others find the motivation to make things. If non-commercial sharing has such a large impact on the creation of new things, wouldn't we have noticed by now? If anything, copyright limits creativity in so many ways. In Sweden we don't even have fair use of images and there is still silent films which won't be free for another 30 years or so. Today making new things are not encouraged, today making one thing, and then exploit it, is encouraged.