To Allow Copyright Infringement, or Not...

[El Dingo]

You Sir, have just proved that your allegiance is with the Ninjas!

As a Pirate, we are now mortal enemies!

Seriously, I firmly believe (and I think there are statistics that back me up, as well as some that prove me wrong), that exposure == more sales.

I've illegally downloaded movies and music for years, then purchased legit copies of the stuff I really like. You've seen my DVD collection. Do you think I would have bought a lot of that stuff without seeing it first? Case in point 'Idiocracy'. If that movie hadn't been spread around via BitTorrent it would not have the cult following (and DVD sales) that it has today.

Of course I understand literature is a different animal. A film is usually not distributed in DVD quality with all the extras you'd find on a commercial release. Books can be posted with all the letters intact.

I used to read 'Omni' magazine back in the day (Bob 'Penthouse' Guccione's foray into science and science-fiction). Some of the short stories were fantastic and I want to read them again, but alas, there is no online 'Omni' repository and no internet user has made the effort to illegally post them.

So you have only one option. Post them on your site, put a 'PayPal Donation' button up and see what happens...