Cory Doctorow on Macropayments (via Chris Anderson):
I don’t care about making sure that everyone who gets a copy of my books pays me for them — what I care about is ensuring that the everyone who would pay me decent money for a book has the opportunity to do so. I don’t want to hold 13-year-olds by the ankles and shake them until their allowance falls out of their pockets, but I do want to be sure that when their parents are thinking about a gift for them, the first thing that springs to mind is my latest $20-$25 hardcover.
This is the equivalent of Microsoft turning a blind eye to a certain level of Windows piracy in third world countries. Hold on to the status of being an industry standard by ignoring low-level piracy and charge those who can afford to pay.
