and wendig had like. a fucking dozen people who checked out his goddamn mediocre shit. and he was losing his mind over that. just about any shonen jump manga gets pirated a million times more than you assholes and *still* outsells you to boot.
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and those manga creators are treated terribly! worked to the fucking bone by their publishers! even if all the pirates disappeared, your publishers would treat you like dirt and try to pay you as little as possible! fight the *publishers*, you shits!
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last time piracy discourse came up, some comics professional got up to me to be all "how do you expect companies to do better when they're losing money to pirates?" jack kirby was treated like shit by publishers before the internet existed. thousands of creators were.
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the RIAA sued everybody and their grandma while doing everything they could to make sure money didn't go to the artists but to themselves, and now you have streaming, which is legal, but pays even the most famous musicians dogshit in royalties. fight. the. publishers.
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you worry about the pirates stealing a sale while your publisher is using every goddamn lever of power they have - and they are many, including lobbying senators - to permanently drive down your income to starvation wages. christ, unbelievable.
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Self-published authors have no one taking a cut of their income and their "wages" are even worse so I'm not sure where you're going with this
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Like, you realize that indie creators also deal with piracy, and that it's a huge barrier to getting any indie business model off the ground
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maybe chuck wendig, definitely not an indie creator, should use some of his apparently rather large wealth to directly fund them instead of shitting his pants over the 7 or so loans of his books on the internet archive and giving coverage to destroying a priceless resource
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fucking dipshit never heard of torrents and libgen and a billion other goddamn places for piracy. it's whack a mole. there will always be pirates. there are probably people pirating my 2 dollars a pop work, jeopardy boy, i don't fucking care. and i'm dirt poor.
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It's not about how many specific copies got shared from IA during this time period it's about IA trying to enshrine in law that there's no such thing as separate ebook rights, which are one of the main things publishers pay authors for
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You understand that all of the major labor unions for authors are against this, right, and have strongly taken this position for years before Chuck Wendig ever said anything about it
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