Why do I bother?

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http://www.bthunter.org/torrents/angelia-sparrow-amp-naomi-brooks-ti5645960.html

74 seeders.
74 people are putting my work out for free.

7 downloads in one day. Not sure if I'm insulted it's so low or irate there are any at all.

I've C&D them. Best you can do for me is go mark the torrent a fake to warn people off it.

It's mostly Amber Quill & Ellora's Cave stuff, with some Pink Petal and a Storm Moon. There's even a Torquere piece on there.


And people wonder why I don't "give back" to the readers. I do give back. I keep writing, even when they're robbing me blind.

Every Alive on the Inside dowloaded is $1.05 out of my pocket
Every Barbarossa is 1.50
Chaine Male is 66c
The Collared Hearts are out of print, but they'd be 50c each
Manicurists is 1.45
5 time loser is out of print
Etarin, 30c
Glad Hands, $1.80
Heart of a forest, 30c
Kestrel is out of print
Long Term, 49c
Master Bear, 42c
Privateer's Treasure, 59c
Shell shocked, 42
Thigh to Thigh, 28c
Tuition Fees--out of print
Skyrat, 1.08

Every one of those downloads costs me $10.84 cents
I have lost $75.88. That's 9.5 hours of work on my day job.
These people have stolen a full work day of my life.