"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.
The whole issue is that they see themselves as fighting a general societal trend and not specific actors Like it's not about calculating how much IA or Google Books directly hurt book sales, it's about normalizing a culture of "You don't have to pay for content"
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"Content is just out there, it floats around for free on the Internet, its only connection to the real economy is if something makes you really happy you look up who the OP is and toss a dollar in their ko-fi"
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It's a general attitude that groups like the Authors Guild believe to be very common and steadily advancing and overall ruinous for the possibility of "content creator" being a sustainable day job Which is why they sued Google Books, it wasn't the publishers
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