Letter to the Romance Writers of America

To whom it may concern,
A recent study by Virginia tech has found that Ebooks comprise of less than 1% of the bulk of "pirated" materials on the internet. Obviously an even smaller percentage is comprised completely of romance novels. Many piracy sites such as The Pirate Bay (good luck trying to shut that one down it's Swedish and legal) offer a "top 100 feature" which allows the user to view the 100 most downloaded items in a particular category, such as Ebooks. I've logged the list from pirate bay and a few other sites under top 100 and ebooks (one site has top 200) and on the entire list, there is not a single romance novel. Because these sites are just as mainstream (more mainstream in the case of Pirate Bay) as most of the sites you have listed, it's not unlogical to conclude that the Romance Novel industry isn't getting hit very hard. It's quite true that yes SOME novels do get downloaded, but statically its more likely, to be stolen from a store than it is online. The problem this presents is the distribution of free information transfer that organizations such as yourself antagonize, give fuel to Radicalists, who believe the internet needs to be controlled completely by a single entity, and would also make bit torrent clients illegal, when they have perfectly legitimate uses. Blaming the internet is easy, because it's an easily identifiable entity that most people don't completely understand, blaming a site that distributes files, (such as romance novels) are similar in this respect. However what many organizations such as yourself fail to realize is that many of these sites are simply directing users to locations where these files can be located. This sites are targeted because organizations like yourself want to elimnate the problem with one stone not millions, When in fact it is the individuals seeding the files that are responsible. This would be very much like arresting a person for drawing a map to a rental store. Because of this I am demanding that you immediately disband and compose a formal apology to listed sites. I know very well that you will do no such thing, but organizations such as yourself make demands like this one to "Piracy sites" all the time, and expect them to be taken seriously. However what you are doing is far worse than what you condem others for, you would have the free trade of information eliminated, to satisfy your own very marginal sales loss. In conclusion your far worse than the demon your trying to slay, and your entire organization should take a good look in the mirror and decide if a VERY small profit is worth the global oppression it will create
Respectfull yours,
Wil Sheppard-Guardian of Truth