> I don't get why writers try to abuse copyright law to artificially constrain the disbursement of their material That's not an abuse of copyright law, that's

> I don't get why writers try to abuse copyright law to artificially constrain the disbursement of their material That's not an abuse of copyright law, that's it's exact purpose. > Instead, I'd attach a donation link [...] Just because you can make up numbers where this is successful doesn't mean it would be successful, or give any insight into the situations that are most amenable to it.