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As you likely know, CISPA was passed by the House of Representatives. This bill – allegedly designed to keep us safe from something or other – is the biggest threat to online privacy and creativity that I've ever seen. The only people it really protects are the individuals and corporations who seem entirely oblivious to the fact that file sharing (even if it is called piracy) is the single best way to advertise and promote things.

I call myself an author. I'd like to be paid to tell stories. However, my first and most important goal is to entertain, and I can't do that if people are kept from sharing my work. As someone who hopes to make his living by selling something online, I'm especially vulnerable to revenue losses from piracy, but I've always argued that people should be free to upload, download, and share anything they'd like. In the end, I've reasoned, enough people will pay for something to make it worthwhile.

Well, CISPA says otherwise, and I'm not going to do anything to support its lunacy. I'm putting my money where my mouth is, and I'm releasing my novel, Nearly Departed, for free.
<bot>: CISPA is bad. Artists are not adversely affected by piracy. To prove it, I'm releasing my novel for free.