The thing being that what the authors are objecting to isn't "leakage" from the system from many small scale actors, it's one very big and powerful actor from the tech sector making a big move to permanently change how the system works
Yeah sure one act of piracy doesn't instantly snatch the retail list price of the book out of the author's bank account The aggregate effect of it is to drive the value of their work closer and closer to zero though
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The idea that "piracy hurts no one, in fact it HELPS authors by giving them exposure, there's never been a better time to be an author!" is just total garbage It's offensive enough that it qualifies as "gaslighting"
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The giant sucking sound destroying the very concept of a middle class artistic career and turning it all into precarious gig work because the money just isn't there anymore isn't some kind of magic coincidence that happened to occur at the same time as digitization
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