Why Do Book Lovers Support Piracy?

I was Googling myself today (not as kinky as it sounds) and I ran across one of those nasty pirate sites, Fiction Books Bay. Now luckily, I wasn’t on it, but I was shocked at the amount of flagrant copyright violation on that site. Big name authors and smaller indie writers are being violated without consideration of their feelings or hard work. I think it is such a disgrace that people are so disrespectful of authors in this way. 

 

What really prompted this post is that I found books on this site by authors I know from online social sites.

 

Here’s a partial list of writers who have had their rights violated by Fiction Books Bay:

 

First books by the people I know.

• Riyria Revelations Series - Michael J. Sullivan
• Touch of Power - Maria V. Snyder
• Oh. My. Gods. Series - Tera Lynn Childs 

Second, big name authors.

• Jim Butcher 
• Margaret Atwood 
• Harry Turtledove 
• Mercedes Lackey 
• Patricia A. McKillip 
• Piers Anthony 
• Christopher Paolini
• Sherrilyn Kenyon
• Amanda Hocking
• Dean Koontz
• Guillermo Del Toro
• Cassandra Clare
• Julie Kagawa

The self-centered people that upload and download these pirated books never think. They never consider the actual human being, the person behind the book, the one who wrote the words they are stealing (and yes it is stealing, because they have no right to distribute the books). Authors (plus musicians and artists as well) should be allowed to earn their living in peace, without fear of being ripped off.

 

Pirates and supporters of pirates should be ashamed of themselves. You are all bottom-feeders.