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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph
You know what? SCREW YOU. You sit here and smugly call people names and then try to act like you are on the side of “good and justice.” I would bet that YOU have more pirated works than anybody on this thread and you’re talking out of guilt. You “doth protest too much, methinks.”
Time after time people are telling you that THEY DO NOT WANT TO SHARE THEIR BOOKS WITH THE WORLD and yet you keep coming back with the same  You keep proclaiming that authors aren’t going to write books…well they can STOP and find a full time job. I don’t give a good damn. I can live just fine without their crap and keep my hard earned money in my pocket. You don’t get it, do you?? There are NO AUTHORS without readers and you, my friend, turn my stomach.
I have spent over $300 on books this calendar year and you know what?? If some stupid publisher or author didn’t get my money cause they don’t get the message – well it’s their loss, not mine.
I am SICK TO DEATH of people like YOU calling me a thief because I want the ability to use the items that I PAY FOR as I SEE FIT. If you are so concerned about the pirating, keep your damn manuscript in the damn drawer! I’ve lost thousands of dollars in .LIT books and I refuse to keep losing more. I don’t steal/pirate/whatever ebooks. I don’t need to. I have a damn good job and I can spend my money in whatever manner I please. And I please to spend my money with the companies who actually value me as a customer. If you had a publishing company, you’d never see a DIME of my money. And if I ever find out who you are and that you are part of a publishing company or an author I support – I would stop supporting whatever it is that YOU are attached to. |
Er, WTF?? I've never called you names or responded to a single one of your posts. If I touched a nerve, I didn't intend to. If you feel that this incoherent rant helped you work out some of your frustrations, well OK.
I've lost all kinds of money when platforms shifted on me, but that's just the way of the techno world in my book.
I might add that none of this is personal to me . I felt that the rights of creators ought to strongly protected and that arts and the sciences will not flourish if their rights are pirated or "shared'' away. I felt that at least ONE person should advocate this view on a forum where the the IP rights of very authors you profess to care for seem to extend only to the boundaries of what is convenient. Obviously, this kind of dissent is something you can't bear to see expressed, even when you are not the focus of the discussion.
I think this is a good time for me to stop being outspoken on this issue, at least for the night.
Mission accomplished, Kommisar Ms. Joseph. Dissent has been crushed-at least for the evening.