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Originally Posted by darksaber35
Dont you find it ironic that the most wealthy people as well as the richest company's scream about piracy and drag any on they can through the courts.
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What I find ironic is people on a site devoted to books and reading condoning stealing an author's hard work. And did you notice that what Goodkind did was *not* drag this guy through the court?
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Apple jumps to mind for one who have have fought SAMSUNG in a number of pointless legal battles that they lost..
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This is not about Apple, Apple's suit was not about piracy, and Apple did not lose all of their legal battles.
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Originally Posted by Quexos
It's not ironic. The rich and powerful also wish to control everything. It's important for them to not only have lots of money but also to have the power to decide right from wrong and through campaigns of different kinds, brainwash most of us into defending their side. The result being all those who buy that propaganda that not going along those corporations and companies is "wrong". They believe what the system wants them to believe ...
So it's not ironic at all.
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So your solution is to conclude that Goodkind is wrong because he is a successful author? Why are you defending someone who took an author's work without paying for it and distributed it to the Internet at large? Do you believe this is justified because the author is successful? Do we get to steal everything from people richer than ourselves?
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Originally Posted by Quexos
Sure and why not a good old fashioned lynching while we're at it  |
Maybe you need to take a break from people who steal from authors and look up what a lynching really is. Hint - posting on your facebook page that someone pirated and uploaded your book is not "lynching."
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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
I used the word 'posse' I believe - and by that I mean the first definition as indicated in this link. - a group of people encouraged to assist in law enforcement. Edited to add the fourth definition could also apply "A group of friends or associates."
He is acting as his own sheriff in this case, not wanting to go traditional routes to see a crime through, and his fans and other folks who object to the actions of the book pirate are also supporting him. |
If he were acting as his own sheriff, he would have arrested the guy and locked him up. All Goodkind did was to tell people that the guy pirated his work.