Again, I think there's a lot of room for a nuanced discussion there. There is a problem! The problem is capitalism! But at this point I want to remind you that this whole thread started with someone going "hur dur this guy writes like a dork."
He specifically said that he frequently gets asked "I pirated a PDF of your book once, do you have a tipjar" and he refuses to put one up for this reason, to not give momentum to the "Support authors directly!" meme
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"If you pirated one of my books and feel bad about it and want to support me, buy a copy in hardcover The best way to support me is to support my publisher"
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Now, you can choose to think he's a brainwashed fool with Stockholm Syndrome, and back in the day I was a hardcore anti-copyright anti-publishing guy and argued with him on his blog about it, and losing that debate publicly and harshly was a big reason I changed my mind
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