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Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Viv‏ @VivJaye 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @VivJaye @arthur_affect and

      Actually I've had a bit of a cough these last couple days, probably nothing but we *are* in a pandemic, phyisical copy of the book seems a bit risky in these days. Better to send a pdf, surely?

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @VivJaye @wwahammy @Macrike

      *shrug* Individual people doing minor things on a casual basis is not the same thing, or if it's qualitatively the same thing the fact that it's much quantitatively lower impact means people can and do prioritize what they get upset about

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and

      It's not a big deal for me to pay for lunch for someone if we go out and they can't afford it, that doesn't mean I can open up a tab at the restaurant and let everyone eat for free and charge it to my card

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and

      The thing people are missing here is it's not one case of someone uploading a song onto YouTube or whatever, groups like the AG push back when large organizations seek to legally expand fair use all at once, en masse, and create a new legal precedent

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and

      Most of these authors would probably give you a free ebook key themselves if you asked nicely, the issue is IA suddenly and unilaterally deciding on their behalf "You don't need this revenue stream right now, it's an emergency"

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    6. Viv‏ @VivJaye 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @wwahammy @Macrike

      I mean... yeah? How many one on one DMs do you think authors would be responding to as millions of families get stuck at home with their kids? That's not sustainable in a pandemic either.

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    7. Viv‏ @VivJaye 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @VivJaye @arthur_affect and

      And like, sure legally that author would have the right to say "you cant nhave my book for free, please stop messaging me". They Absolutely do.

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    8. Viv‏ @VivJaye 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @VivJaye @arthur_affect and

      I absolutely don't care though? Single mother, three kids all at home because school is cancelled, still having to go to work all day, sure, download some fucking books for your kids. Buy them each a tablet and download fifty books for each even.

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @VivJaye @wwahammy @Macrike

      Okay, cool Considering most authors aren't rich and also their books aren't actually medicine or food, as much as book lovers like to poetically describe them as such, you can't cry foul at them for not wanting to make it easy

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    10. Viv‏ @VivJaye 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @wwahammy @Macrike

      I mean, I can? Demonstrably? Well, I mean, sure not cry foul maybe but like, I can absolutely not give a shit and support downloading every young adult book you can find for your 12 year old kid to sit at home and ready whilst you go catch your death workin at a grocery store

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 31 Mar 2020
      Replying to @VivJaye @wwahammy @Macrike

      Sure, and if someone poor and desperate finds your wallet and takes all the cash out of it there's probably nothing you could say or do to shame them over it and you'd just have to let it go What of it

      4:47 AM - 31 Mar 2020
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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 31 Mar 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and

          As @AlexandraErin said, maybe at some point someone saying "I'm suffering so much I just don't give a shit about your welfare" is impossible to argue against But why do they feel the need to have the argument Why rub it in the author's face

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 31 Mar 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and

          It actually really sticks in my craw that we do in fact live in the Brave New World - there's SO MUCH free content out there, explicitly made free, often by creators who would rather not be putting stuff out there for free but have no real choice in the matter

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