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Originally Posted by cjr72
Well I can't speak for "Free Culture" but I would think the amount of hypocrisy depends on the definition of free that they adhere to. But also I think it's disingenuous to portray it as large corporations vs individual artists. One could easily turn that around to large media companies vs individual software developers. |
I'm not portraying it as such, merely noting a spot on blindness on the "pirates", namely that they would be just the sort to say they don't support large corporations, when, in fact, in order to pirate to they do so (as the ads generated on search engines, pirate hosting site, etc., are where their pirating generates revenue).
And this case in point is very much one of an individual artist, as Goodkind released the book himself, with no media-company in the middle.
So the pirate in this generated revenue for tech companies by ripping off an individual.
Way to rebel against the system, pirate...err...maybe not.
