'pirate website' is a bit disingenuous. they're a non-profit, they work with libraries, normally they have waitlists for all their stuff. the files downloaded are encrypted, not like a pirate site
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I get that they can be frustratingly unresponsive, but they do a lot of good. we have an atrocious copyright system, with so many works by estateless dead people entombed in it, works that would be otherwise broadly inaccessible without projects like openlibrary
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they've waived their waitlists for a few months. again, i get that they're like not exactly author-friendly and can be less than accommodating, but they're not just some malicious profiteering group
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Uh, they illegally have some of my books so try again.
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yeah, agreed it's probably illegal. just wouldn't lump them in with, like, Pirate Bay or whatever
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Um. Illegal is just that. Authors aren't getting paid.
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the problem isn't the legality the problem is you need royalties to survive have you ever questioned whether that's a GOOD thing, that you have to run through publishing hellfire just to get a tiny cut of someone's goodwill? that you HAVE to limit your viewership to live?
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Lol Jesus Christ this is the part of the argument I hate most Do you think piracy is better for self-published writers than traditional publishers? If anything it's the one thing that makes self-publishing almost impossible as an actual vocation
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