This morning, the moment Tiger opened WeChat Moments, he saw an article reposted there by Sword Peak: "Tieba Frenziedly Pirating Online Literature: Authors Can't Even Become Moderators of Their Own Works," from Nandu Digital News.
It was an article fiercely condemning the harm piracy inflicted on online literature. Tiger opened it and read it from beginning to end. His heart resonated deeply; for a long while, he could not calm down. He felt something churning in his chest, and wanted to say something to everyone.
The problem of piracy may have clung to the entire literary industry like a shadow from the very day words could be uploaded online. Online literature, in particular, has been a disaster zone for piracy. From "A Letter from Han Han to Mr. Li Yanhong of Baidu" several years ago to today's article from Nandu Digital News, Tiger had seen quite a few articles denouncing online piracy. He believed that, besides Tiger himself, everyone had likewise seen no small number of such articles and messages over the years.
When all these articles discussed the harm caused by online piracy, they broadly focused their criticism of pirated online literature on three aspects. The first was morality, the second was legal systems, and the third was economics—mainly the enormous losses piracy of online literature brought to the entire industry.
After reading these articles condemning piracy, every reader would have one thought: the victims of online piracy were nothing more than authors and online writers, publishers and legitimate websites, as well as the entire online literature industry—and to a reader who read novels, these victims were simply too far removed.
Even if I read pirated copies, so what? Aren't those articles just sitting there to be read without paying? On Tieba and those pirated literature sites, pirated novels