Like the responses to working authors seem to veer wildly between "You're a privileged fuck for making whatever amount you make and you should make the same pittance I do" and "You're a stupid brainwashed fuck and if you ditched your publisher you'd have 10x the money"
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I prefer the former because it's at least an honest opinion that doesn't assume facts not in evidence It's the disingenuous "I'm trying to HELP you, I'm trying to FREE you from your abusive paymasters" stuff that annoys me
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Replying to @LorelaiMerri @Trashy_In_Pink
The publishers are in fact paying them, just not paying them (in your view) enough If the publishers ceased to exist, they have reason to think that this would lead to them instead being paid nothing
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Replying to @LorelaiMerri @arthur_affect
This study doesn't control for libraries at all. Poland is one of the many EU countries (like mine) where authors and artists in general can apply for state stipends. That data doesn't carry over to the US system that cleanly.
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Replying to @Trashy_In_Pink @LorelaiMerri
Yeah also I don't put a whole ton of stock in "experiments" like this done by economists (the Freakonomics model of research) and I'm always surprised when people who claim to be leftists do
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If nothing else, just at a glance this isn't studying the effects of *piracy* but the effects of *trying to stop piracy* (or not) And one thing I always hear from copyleft types is that "playing whack-a-mole" with takedown requests is pointless because it doesn't even work
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Okay, I skimmed through the article, and one major glaring issue pops up immediately In their discussion of challenges to the validity of this study the authors admit that all of the pirated copies in question are amateur scans of physical books
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Meaning the downloaded files aren't actually that close a substitute for the purchased product, and are often of objectively poor quality They admit that the situation would be very different with pirated ebooks
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...This is exactly what publishers and the Authors Guild say about ebooks and exactly why they have fought to slow the adoption of ebooks "Book piracy" as a concept is as old as scanners but everyone agrees it only became a hot button when people started trying to sell ebooks
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