I was sent a link today to a site with illegal downloads of the books I produced for Fantagraphics/Eros with artists Art Wetherell and David Gordon.
In the space of a year one book was downloaded 34,831 times. That is 34,831 thefts of copyright and money from us as creators. Read and liked it? Did they buy copies? No.
Including just one other book downloaded with 60,881...that's 95,712 thefts.
To put that in perspective my percentage from these were they sales would be £478,560 and that is from just ONE site. Others exist and it must be remembered that these are sites run by criminals accepting copyright theft -they KNOW what they are doing as do the thieves downloading.
As I've just had a can of cold Heinz spaghetti for my main meal you can see why even 5% of that £478,560 would be welcome.
THIS IS WHY I ACCEPT NO EXCUSES FROM PEOPLE WHO ILLEGALLY UPLOAD BOOKS OR THOSE WHO DOWNLOAD THEM. YOU ARE THIEVES
In the space of a year one book was downloaded 34,831 times. That is 34,831 thefts of copyright and money from us as creators. Read and liked it? Did they buy copies? No.
Including just one other book downloaded with 60,881...that's 95,712 thefts.
To put that in perspective my percentage from these were they sales would be £478,560 and that is from just ONE site. Others exist and it must be remembered that these are sites run by criminals accepting copyright theft -they KNOW what they are doing as do the thieves downloading.
As I've just had a can of cold Heinz spaghetti for my main meal you can see why even 5% of that £478,560 would be welcome.
THIS IS WHY I ACCEPT NO EXCUSES FROM PEOPLE WHO ILLEGALLY UPLOAD BOOKS OR THOSE WHO DOWNLOAD THEM. YOU ARE THIEVES
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