I am going to come out and say it just so we're clear In college and for a long time after I was the biggest pro-piracy anti-IP Free Culture guy in the world I worshiped at the altar of Lawrence Lessig I came to basically regret all of ithttps://twitter.com/SJRogue/status/1271637852074450944 …
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Anyway the article that really gut punched me and made me feel like my position was unsustainable was this viral
@davidclowery piece from 2012, and all my arguments are paraphrases of his, so read it:http://thetrichordist.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/letter-to-emily-white-at-npr-all-songs-considered/ …Show this thread -
(And I'm still chewing over the sheer gall it takes to say "Well you're all stupid! You're all brainwashed and stupid and don't understand who your real enemy is!" straight to the face of a group of published authors And this is something copylefters do *on the reg*)
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For me, it was years of watching what my ex said to creators' faces. I was ambivalent about it anyway, but it always devolved into one-sided assholery.
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Yeah me too. Except for pirating academic papers (and to some extent books), where the creators aren't getting paid from the purchase fees anyway.
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By books I only mean like textbooks, not all books
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It's true, authors need and deserve money for their work and good publishers deserve money so they can exist! I do wish publishers were a bit more relaxed with libraries on e-books (from what I've read). There seems to be a big disparity between them vs a paper book.
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They are extremely paranoid that ebooks are this crack in the dam through which normalized and widespread piracy will flood and destroy their whole industry
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i don't understand the debates. like if i am doing something that other people don't like and i feel i can justify it anyway, i just don't talk about it?
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