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.
If the publishers weren't private companies but were author-owned co-ops would you still be taking this stance Because, like I said, this is the stance of all the author labor unions
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BUT THEY AREN'T FUCKING AUTHOR OWNED CO-OPS, ARE THEY, JEOPARDY BOY THEY'RE PRIVATE COMPANIES THAT EXPLOIT THE AUTHOR, GIVE THEM ALMOST NOTHING, ARE SUING FOR *150K PER 'VIOLATION*, WHICH WILL GO TO THE COMPANY, NOT THE AUTHOR
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they are private companies that squeeze the libraries, the authors, the consumers, all of them - they squeeze the legal system itself, hell! to say nothing of the fact that the IA took down books if the author requested! dipshit could've sent an email!
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