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"Mark Waid has said that the comics industry &amp;quot;benefits&amp;quot; from piracy. When asked whether he thought that piracy represents a risk to the industry during the Digital and Print: Friends or Foes? panel at Comic-Con, the Thrillbent founder spoke about its benefits.  &amp;quot;I think it is not only unaffected by piracy, it benefits from pirating,&amp;quot; Comic Book Resources quotes him as saying. &amp;quot;You cannot stop pirating of comics. It&amp;#039;s like trying to push the tide back with a broom. &amp;quot;You can either be angry about it, and resistant, and fight and clamp down harder, or you can find ways to make that tool work for you. &amp;quot;With Thrillbent, we offered all our files free to download on a weekly basis, so you can read them free on the site and you can also download them for free, and that way, sure enough, we got to control the quality of the image, we got to make sure it was not out of focus or crappy or corrupted files or whatever, we got to make sure there was a placard at the end that says, hey, if you like this come to Thrillbent for more stuff, and that worked wonders for us. &amp;quot;And I know that pumped up our traffic. That is not the answer for every publisher, but I will go to my grave not buying the baloney that every pirated comic was a lost sale.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Interview: Mark Waid on gender and digital comics The Daredevil writer previously encouraged piracy of his Insufferable series. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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