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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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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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
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Replying to @arthur_affect @VivJaye and
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@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 face1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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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And people swimming in this ocean of free shit act like they're dying of thirst in the desert because MORE shit COULD be free
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