Comment by vintagedave

> But I have friends who used to self publish some small esoteric fiction. This commonplace theft has basically made them stop

If you're writing for money, maybe. If you're writing for the love of writing, it won't.

More, you hear of authors who encourage their books to be made available without DRM, who know or silently encourage their books to end up on torrent / library sites. They want their books to be read.