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Originally Posted by Hitch
Probably ended up being one of my clients. ;-)
I still can't see it. Not unless you used heavily trademarked names/items/concepts/whatever in it. Remember the US case:
I'm pretty sure that 99.9999% of all TOC's "lack the modicum of creativity necessary" yadda-yadda.
You guys need to come to work for me for a month. You'll get this spiel, concept, question, over and over. All effectively distilling down to, "[h]ow do[es] he know that [we] won't steal [his] book?" Yupperdoodle, boy, I'm gonna steal YOUR autobiography and do...what?
Is there some reason that 99.99% of all authors don't seem to understand what "pirating" IS? As in, GIVING something away? And thus, I would steal your s**t for what purpose? To GIVE it away? So, I'd wreck my company, put myself out of business...to pirate someone's half-assed book, to give it away to the masses. To earn nothing.
Oh, brother. Geeze, if I'm going to go to the dark side, you can bet your bippy that it's for money, not for the...what? The glory of stealing something that nobody wants in the first place, to give it away for nothing?
THAT is the thing that kills me. I've had a fairly wide-ranging life, in any number of unusual professions, with a few adventures here and there, and I can't imagine that ANYONE wants to read about my life. I don't understand why all these people are so convinced that other people unrelated to them want to read theirs, especially those that have pretty much not done anything. It's...boggling.
Hitch
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No offense meant to anyone but the worst ones I have seen are the I overcame whatever and now I must share my story. The whatever is usually something minor. Usually some crap that happened in high school. Now the girl that wound up homeless at 14 was an interesting read. (Lots of side stuff too.)
I've had adventures myself but I doubt seriously anyone cares.