What really surprises me is that even tho you know that this causes a problem for the author, you still encourage such behavior. Don't you think that actively working to the detriment and inconvenience of the author and the people who pay him for his works eventually transfers to the detriment of others including those who don't pay...?
Oversharing has one effect -> the author starts spending more time so that his works can somehow be monetized. Usually it starts by making his works harder to access. But in some cases he can be discouraged and take a brake from working and in extreme cases could stop creating altogether.
Besides, I've already seen 3 cases of smaller authors when due to the oversharing of their works they completely stopped, cause their work were pirated to so much extent, that even before they managed to send links to the archives to all of their supporters, someone already linked their archives public -> links crashed 2 times before people could even get it. So of course they lost supporters and in the end stopped working altogether, cause not enough profit over real life work.
And no, I'm not on crusade or something. Notice that I never wrote not to share someone's works at all, because let's be real - it's inevitable. What I'm trying to do is to make people more aware so that they don't make more problems for the author than just sharing his works already.
I see it simple - Don't Bite the Hand That Feeds You.
