Tell that to any author struggling to make ends meet and who learns thousands of copies of their work has been pirated. It absolutely does have an impact and we lose authors to this all the time. It costs indie authors thousands to publish and stealing at any level is a loss.
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The number of downloads is, indeed, *higher*than the number of people who would've rented if piracy didn't exist That much is certainly true But the latter number is not zero And the amount of money they get from the higher number of downloads IS zero so who the fuck cares
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Like the way people talk about this is really condescending and really obviously stupid "Piracy is free PR, it helps you go viral" Okay but nobody actually goes VIRAL viral How many indie films do you think become massive national fads so everyone involved gets rich off merch
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I could do a search right now on my own books and find them on a pirate site. Every published author can say the same.
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