Insults them
instead
Horror writer Stephen King says it is just not worth tracking
down the pirates who put copies of his ebooks online.
While writers like
Ursula Le Guin and Harlan Ellison will sue. Stephen King's approach is to
insult the pirates instead. King told the New York Times that he wondered
how much time and energy do I want to spend chasing these guys.
"My sense is
that most of them live in basements floored with carpeting remnants, living on
Funions and discount beer," he said.
In other words there is a certain type
who reads pirated copies of books and generally they have little enough going on
in their lives to make suing them worthwhile. Most authors realise that they
will lose some sales to online pirates, but very often these are not harming the
bottom line enough to worry about.