Quote:
Originally Posted by rhadin
Let me see if I understand. You didn't have commercial success and stoically faced economic reality. This lead you to change your goals, so you are no longer looking for fame and fortune. Consequently, you no longer need copyright protection because you have nothing to economically protect. Because you have nothing to protect, copyright is a bad idea and piracy is right and just.
|
Nope. About as badly read as could be.
How can I have commercial success when I don't offer anything commercially and never did? I'm really struggling to understand what you're getting at with this one. And I've never loooked for fame and fortune, doesn't interest me. I did follow the same path of many writers indoctrinated by the publishing system - the get an agent, get edited, get a publisher bullshit. I did once believe that being published was the holy grail of writing and that good things would follow from there. I also once believed in the tooth fairy, Father Christmas and that one day I'd be as tough as Mr T from the A-Team.
Now I believe one hundred percent in writing for the sake of writing, everything else after that is just gravy poured over the meat. I don't give a shit about economic models, I don't care if the publishing industry dies out tomorrow and every last one of the hangers on and middlemen have to find other jobs. I don't care about piracy (which is to say I think it is no more right or wrong than the weather, it just is and you may as well try and stop the rain from pouring or the sun from shining). I don't care about copyright much either; I'll leave the corporations to fight over the rotting carcass of what used to benefit the whole, but now only benefits the few.
I care about writing. I care about story. I care about freedom.
None of these things cost me a cent, and I don't expect to make a cent because of them.