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 @arthur_affect
chuck wendig talking about 'small creators' as he's one of the few with money to burn, and does he use it to support those creators? nope! he pisses and moans about the internet archive! funny that video game creators are way more chill about this shit!
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Replying to @spacetwinks @arthur_affect
i can go play *thousands* of dos games on the internet archive itself, and they are *way* more popular than all this shit, and nobody involved with making them is shitting their pants - hell, lots of creators have seen it as intrinsic to their business and reselling!
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Replying to @spacetwinks
DOS games, by definition, are almost all pre-1995 The Free Library *could* have restricted itself to only works at least 20 years old, or works no longer in print, but they specifically did not do this, which is why so many people objected
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The authors who complained almost all had books in the Free Library that had been published within the past ten years and were still in print and actively being sold in ebook form They were not in any sense "abandonware"
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