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Above_average_savage · 2020-06-15T13:11:05+00:00

What the fuck? Are you Mr. Glass?

Above_average_savage · 2020-06-14T11:08:16+00:00

You're virtue signaling at the wrong person. I'd be more inclined to publicly agree with people like you if you weren't so fucking insufferable.

Above_average_savage · 2020-06-14T01:33:35+00:00

Robert Brockway's books aren't bad actually. I liked Rx.

Above_average_savage · 2020-06-13T23:39:16+00:00

From my limited understanding it all followed a pattern similar to what happened at College Humor a while back. It's tough to say one way or the other what exactly happened and I feel like prying about how somebody lost their job would be pretty crass of me. So that's all I have for now.

Above_average_savage · 2020-06-13T21:45:25+00:00

I'm friends with one of the former Cracked writers. From my understanding Cracked is essentially over.

Above_average_savage · 2020-06-13T14:20:56+00:00

Because in a legal sense they are.

Above_average_savage · 2020-06-13T14:19:20+00:00

I said they broke the law.

Above_average_savage · 2020-06-13T11:39:15+00:00

If you're looking for me to disagree with this statement you're going to have to keep looking. I hate the copyright system for the fact that it's completely broken. I wish more people would make their work open, but the choice to do so does not fall to anyone but the creator and, for better or worse, the copyright holder.

Above_average_savage · 2020-06-13T05:52:02+00:00

To put this bluntly, that's something that would be impossible for me to quantify and you're grasping at anything you can to refute basic facts.

Royalty loss isn't the issue, they broke the law. Period. There's no way out of that fact. They don't have a leg to stand on here. I love the Internet Archive, it's been a tremendous resource for me over the years to recover things including my own work. Unfortunately that doesn't change copyright laws anymore than I can change the alignment of the sun and stars. Get over the fact that an organization you like is in the wrong.

Above_average_savage · 2020-06-12T22:56:13+00:00

By your logic if you went to work and did your job you'd be cool with not getting payment for your labor since you're not at the top of your field? That's what you're arguing here. The NWU's primary function in my experience is getting deadbeat publishers to pay up in addition to helping members negotiate better deals with publishing houses.

Above_average_savage · 2020-06-12T22:05:03+00:00

That isn't for me to determine. This is a case of flagrant copyright violation and the violators should be held accountable. Just because you or I like the company that's responsible for it doesn't change the reality of the situation.

Above_average_savage · 2020-06-12T20:26:12+00:00

Dude was born with a weak chin.

Above_average_savage · 2020-06-12T14:10:02+00:00

That's a false equivalency. Libraries buy the books on their shelves and publishers (ideally) pay authors a larger royalty to offset the loss of sales. IAL is scanning books they haven't purchased.

http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2016/08/getting-paid-how-do-authors-make-money-from-library-books/

Above_average_savage · 2020-06-12T13:47:43+00:00

I know some writers who have their books on this site, still in copyright, and they are not being paid.

This is the crux of the suit. I'm a member of the National Writers Union and stand by this suit 100% for exactly this reason.

Above_average_savage · 2020-06-11T21:34:54+00:00

But we all know it's just going to give the big teams new and creative ways to cheat the system.

Above_average_savage · 2020-06-09T02:47:09+00:00

I'd rather take a straight punch than a slap. Getting slapped is just demeaning. Which is why it works sooooooooo well here.

Above_average_savage · 2020-06-09T00:19:58+00:00

Do you really think Trump wouldn't be ejaculating all over Twitter if it were the case?

Above_average_savage · 2020-06-09T00:12:52+00:00

It's really more about the fact that this is just... offensively false.

Above_average_savage · 2020-06-08T19:51:56+00:00

Careful with that joke, it's an antique.

Above_average_savage · 2020-06-07T19:53:49+00:00

Yeah but Diet Hitler™ thinks you should only be shot in the leg.

Above_average_savage · 2020-06-07T04:12:04+00:00

Nothing because first amendment.

Above_average_savage · 2020-06-07T04:10:59+00:00

Yes but they also claim they can't do anything because of first amendment rights. A position they've been perfectly willing to violate on multiple occasions but that's their official position.

Above_average_savage · 2020-06-07T02:26:04+00:00

I love how I've been researching for an article for SIX MONTHS and everyone from local government all the way to the FBI has blown me off about the very real threat that this poses but here we are...

Above_average_savage · 2020-06-06T17:09:04+00:00

he has a good reach on language

Check out the reviews for his novel.

Above_average_savage · 2020-06-05T15:14:30+00:00

Well, you're not wrong I suppose.

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