Why do I bother?

[valarltd]

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.

Comments

[moons-storm.livejournal.com]

I find pirating an infuriating battle. I use MUSO at the moment. They track and do takedowns for me. I get daily emails, and it's not very expensive. You pay by the campaign, and my campaign is 'S.L. Armstrong'. It finds everything pirated with my name attached to it, and I can click one button and send a takedown. It's usually down within 12 hours. It also has a great section that finds links through web search engines that people use to get to torrents and such, and I can send takedowns to Google and Bing and have them remove the links from their results. It's heavily cut down on the amount of pirating of my work. I don't think it's eradicated it, but it's helped a hell of a lot.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

This is the first one in about a year and a half for Naomi and me.

Again, not sure if I should be relieved or insulted