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lagilmanunder the heading of "arrogant," subheading, "weasily little shit."
"...There are 1410 authors, and maybe 15,000-20,000 works (duplicate formats exist for many, most being .pdf). Needless to say countless hours were put into this project (and many more could be), so I hope you like it and will help seed it."
I can't speak to all 20,000 works being pirated, but the ones of mine that person has oh so graciously uploaded sure as hell are.
(s/he was quite upfront about the fact that "(one bloody collection took hours to unpack!$%#)" Apparently s/he never stopped to think that what s/he was doing was, y'know... wrong. In both the moral and legal sense. Or just doesn't give a fuck.)
Stupid little arrogant fuckass. Would like to see how s/he would feel about me taking a portion of his/her paycheck because I waaaaaanted it.
And, of course, to actually get the host to take it down they require you to jump through so many hoops, including registering and tracking down every single file you claim, that I'd lose an entire day just to doing that*. Aren't they so clever and cute and oh no they're not doing ANYTHING wrong, they're in utter compliance with the bare letter of the law....
Again I say, if you download bootleg or pirated materials, you're not "putting it to the publishing companies." You're hurting the writers whose work you claim to enjoy, and making it less likely that there will be any more work from that author. Pirated copies = fewer legal sales = less income for the author = finding some other way to make a living.
So steal if you must. But for fuck's sake don't make like you're doing it for anything other than greedy little selfish get-a-kick-out-of-stealing reasons.
*takes a deep breath, exhales*
*I really need an intern, who will file and go to the post awful, and send DMCA letters for me... anyone want to volunteer? I could pay a small commuting stipend, and chocolate chip cookies...
"...There are 1410 authors, and maybe 15,000-20,000 works (duplicate formats exist for many, most being .pdf). Needless to say countless hours were put into this project (and many more could be), so I hope you like it and will help seed it."
I can't speak to all 20,000 works being pirated, but the ones of mine that person has oh so graciously uploaded sure as hell are.
(s/he was quite upfront about the fact that "(one bloody collection took hours to unpack!$%#)" Apparently s/he never stopped to think that what s/he was doing was, y'know... wrong. In both the moral and legal sense. Or just doesn't give a fuck.)
Stupid little arrogant fuckass. Would like to see how s/he would feel about me taking a portion of his/her paycheck because I waaaaaanted it.
And, of course, to actually get the host to take it down they require you to jump through so many hoops, including registering and tracking down every single file you claim, that I'd lose an entire day just to doing that*. Aren't they so clever and cute and oh no they're not doing ANYTHING wrong, they're in utter compliance with the bare letter of the law....
Again I say, if you download bootleg or pirated materials, you're not "putting it to the publishing companies." You're hurting the writers whose work you claim to enjoy, and making it less likely that there will be any more work from that author. Pirated copies = fewer legal sales = less income for the author = finding some other way to make a living.
So steal if you must. But for fuck's sake don't make like you're doing it for anything other than greedy little selfish get-a-kick-out-of-stealing reasons.
*takes a deep breath, exhales*
*I really need an intern, who will file and go to the post awful, and send DMCA letters for me... anyone want to volunteer? I could pay a small commuting stipend, and chocolate chip cookies...
