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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Replying to @arthur_affect
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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Replying to @spacetwinks @arthur_affect
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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Replying to @spacetwinks
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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Replying to @arthur_affect
have you seen how publishers treat ebook rights to 'proper' libraries you fucking idiot. they are ASTONISHINGLY expensive, and the publishers reap the vast majority of the profits and give almost jack to the writers.
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Replying to @spacetwinks @arthur_affect
libraries are far less likely to buy ebook copies than physical copies - which they can also acquire second hand thanks to donations, l m a o, and the author gets paid nothing that way - because the entire system for it is fucked thanks to greedy publishers.
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Replying to @spacetwinks
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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Replying to @arthur_affect
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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Replying to @spacetwinks @arthur_affect
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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Replying to @spacetwinks
Maybe consider that the reason so few authors see publishers as their mortal enemy is they just possibly know more about it than you
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Like the whole thing about "Why don't authors organize" is they DID organize and the unions are very much on the other side of this issue Maybe they're just stupid or brainwashed but I'm not comfortable effectively crossing a picket line here
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