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The culture of entitlement and illegal downloads
Author and journalist Guy Haley has a very sobering post on piracy on his blog - The Culture of Entitlement, Illegal downloads and how it pisses me off (contains swearing so not for the faint of heart).
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and so it begins.....again....
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Angry Robot though are cheap, DRM free and the same price for Australians pretty much.
Which should be supported, cashwise. If you want to rip someone off, pick a Murdoch or French product instead. ![]() |
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I think he has some very interesting points especially with regards to sales numbers persuading the publishers to commission additional books from the author.
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i take pride in ownership. i wouldn't feel any pride in a collection of movies or video games that consisted of dvd-rs labeled with sharpie.
i don't appreciate things i get for free. i could pirate media quite easily, anybody could, but i simply choose not to most of the time. i'm not gonna lie and say i never helped myself to a book or two. but i know an author, i know what he goes through, i know the crappy he job he works at that puts a roof over his head where he can pursue his craft. its not easy for struggling artists at all. but its so seductive man. piracy is the forbidden fruit. everything you could want is right there, a copy&paste away. i think it becomes an addiction, one download becomes two, next thing you know you believe paying is for suckers. is it right to give in? no. but lets be frank, telling someone not to do something is like giving a monkey a loaded gun and expecting them not to shoot anybody. i think the internet gives us too much power that we're not ready for yet and as we evolve there are going to be growing pains. i like where he says that it is dangerous for society and the world at large to believe that you're owed something simply by the virtue that you exist. i'll leave off at that because this isn't the place for that type of discussion. |
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The author just feels entitled to be paid regardless whether people like his work or not.
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From Haley's reply to a commenter: Quote:
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Her reputation is somewhat dubious when it comes to artistic merit and money-grubbing. And her gripe wasn't the piracy per-se; it was that the revenue wasn't up to her *expectations*. (There's entitlement and there is entitlement.) Mind you, I think the online entitlement culture *is* ripe for slapping down: note how the Megauploads crew were instantly sanctified when the news broke? Only later did anybody bother to take note that they were real-life gun-toting thugs and gangsters. And they still have defenders. Similarly, the big corporate types need to be called on their whining and hypocrisy. But life is c-o-m-p-l-i-c-a-t-e-d and two wrongs don't add up to a right (in any definition of the word. ![]() Wanting does not imply getting, much less deserving. So slap away. ![]() |
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Since we're quoting the anecdotes of others to support our personal opinions, here's a quote from O'Reily talking about how infringement benefits him in the long wrong. In his opinion, obscurity is a bigger issue than piracy:
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Here's one last quote from EMI’s VP of Urban Promotions, Craig Davis: Quote:
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Really, my biggest gripe about content is that it is often withheld from distribution. Yah, I know: none of us are entitled to consume a particular book, film, performance, etc. The rights holder is entirely within his/her/corporate rights NOT to make the content available.
I reserve the right to complain when content IS made available the price is too high ... but that's not an excuse for "sharing" illegally. But it's a darned shame when an author like Erle Stanley Gardner, who worte 70+ Perry Mason novels and created one of the true iconic characters in fiction -- as much a household name as Sherlock Holmes, Charlie Chan, Sam Spade -- is currently represented by zero books in print. All because of a long simmering dispute among the rights holders. It is closing in on a generation (abt 20 years now) since his work has been issued in some quantity by a mass market publisher. It's no wonder that fans keep a smattering of his work in underground circulation in these cases. |
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I've pirated his blog post to read on my Kindle later, but from a quick skim while I was deleting the unwanted content he seems to be another of those people who think that it's a simple decision between pirate it or buy it.
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I wondered how long it would be before someone trotted out this tired justification for stealing. "I don't believe that creators are fairly compensated, so I'm going to rip off their work and pay them nothing." Great argument.
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There are still a lot of unavailable backlist e-books, however...so we can exempt the .0001% of pirates who, already owning the book in paper format, take only those books. |
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And movies. With a lot of region 5's reaching the torrents, it's doubly easy. "See it in theaters? Or just wait 2 days to download it?" Then, "Buy the DVD, or download a Blu-Ray rip?"
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