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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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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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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the guy who made 'where the water tastes like wine', a far more recent game - and even features Sting in it! - has a thread all about this, talking about the realities of piracy and where the problems are, and that this shit just isn't worth it!
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authors bitching about piracy are consistently aiming at the wrong fucking target. piracy is gonna happen no matter what. it's a whack a mole problem and doesn't help an author any to focus on it tons. the real problems facing them is **everybody is broke**.
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fucking goddamn no real wage increases in decades, people working 3 goddamn jobs including the authors themselves, cost of living skyrocketed into the fucking stratosphere, these same publishers getting *richer* the whole time. PIRATES aren't the problem here.
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The perceived value of labor in our society has been steadily driven towards zero, yes The Big Tech "information wants to be free" culture, it seems to me, is part of this It goes hand in hand with the gig economy mindset
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"part of this", lmao, to what degree, jeopardy boy, does some vaguely anarchist motherfuckers with a mediocre manifesto on their pirate website influence this shit, and not, y'know, the billionaire companies with all the control.
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You don't think the Internet Archive is part of the "tech community"? You don't think they come out of the same general world as Google and Amazon and have the same general values? Like do you think the Google Books suit was over Google providing an altruistic public service?
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Or that Amazon vs Hachette was Amazon genuinely looking out for the working class and for freedom of information?
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Like that's the biggest unresolved cognitive dissonance here, that the largest and scariest capitalist corporations in the world right now are *on the side you're defending* The Big 6 are ridiculously weak and small compared to Big Tech
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