*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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
You know a lot of the writers flipping out about this have disclosed how they're living hand to mouth, they're afraid their careers will go down the toilet because of the virus, and people are reacting to this with "Get a real job" snottiness
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Yeah, sure, and they can certainly join the queue to do something meaningful about that, I'm right there with them.
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If you literally don't care that someone did work that you benefited from and you did nothing to compensate them for it then what can I say to convince you? There's no point I don't know how to convince people who think we don't owe things to other people that we do
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Likewise, I dunno how to convince you that, if the option is not compensating an author and your child sitting alone in an empty house all day, or not compensating an author and your child having something to read, I'll tell people to take the latter and not feel shame about it.
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So it's the price discrimination argument, right, pay what you can? Okay, you personally know what you can and can't afford, and know for a fact that you will never be able to pay for the book so the author didn't lose a sale Fine A lot of authors might even be ok with that
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