So you support and advocate distributing copyrighted works, and commercial fan-fiction / fan-art? That is theft! How would you feel if your own intellectual property were stolen?
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Ecclesiastes wrote that "reputation is better than fine oil". Around ~2000 Tim O'Reilly noted:
The greatest threat to authors and creative artists is not piracy — it’s obscurity.
.I encourage redistributing my works and creating derivatives of them.
(Also see this E-mail message I wrote.)
I will be happier with many copies of my works floating on the Web, than I was when living in my hell, when I was misled to believe I was obscure.
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