cory doctorow said:

science fiction is the only literature people care enough about to steal on the Internet.  It's the only literature that regularly shows up, scanned and run through optical character recognition software and lovingly hand-edited on darknet newsgroups, Russian websites, IRC channels and elsewhere.

you can find the whole article at:

http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Issues/07DoctorowCommentary.html

-bowerbird