What a dope
View attachment 220773
Nobody is stealing his books through piracy and his work is currently worth zero.
He's such a fucking miserable faggot and this is one of his most hateable takes. Nobody is pirating your books from the Internet archive, you fucking idiot. But sure, close down the worlds single most useful and accessible library. It's not like he reads anything anyway, why would he give a fuck about the implications this will have on research?
Three of his books are on the IA and one of them is literally a scan of a library discard item. If that copy wasnt on there it would be in a landfill by now. The funniest thing is there are more uploads of other patrick lore that get more engagement than his books. CWCs tomlinson iceberg has more views than three of his books combined. I'm sure your sales are going to skyrocket. The three people a year who pirate children of the divide from IA are just going to be forced to buy a copy now.
And you can see exactly how many people pirate his books from each upload on Anna's archive.
He's such an infuriating retrograde piece of shit. Not every download even translates to a lost sale. If Anna's archive never existed, he wouldn't be 362 copies richer. He's probably not even 362 reads better off for it. If he really wants to start a discussion he could release some official sales numbers.
What's happening to IA is so much worse than the nazi bookburning he likes to bring up. This is closer to what happened to the library at alexandria. Fat philistines who don't like books would gladly destroy a beautiful archive of human knowledge for maybe a few hundred bucks he can piss away alone at a beach bar on a Tuesday. He's such an unlikeable person.