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Originally Posted by rpgdemon
In any case, piracy does hurt the artist, even when they make their works readily available. The Wells analog is a false one: The people buying the magazines and later the book were not part of the current culture of, "No one hurts if I steal a digital copy," and they were not consciously intending to steal Wells' work. Today, the people doing the pirating do so in a self entitled --even self righteous-- manner, and if you suggest that it's the wrong thing to do, they will scoff at you and say how they "rn't hrting anyone", and that you need to get off your high horse and be normal.
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Just sayin on the HIB...
They've done it a second time and they've made more money on the second go-around than they did the first.
That's with it being pirated.