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I would rather see my books get pirated than this

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Re: I would rather see my books get pirated than this

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Post by stevenwliao »

chii wrote: post #149
VincentEvans wrote: post #128

Let me tell you how to buy a kindle book for my kid’s Kindle that is connected via a child account in “Amazon Household” to my Amazon account. (This opening sentence already signals how the rest of this will go). A child’s account can’t buy books - you have to do it for them. 1. I open Amazon app on my iphone and find the book - “This app does not support purchasing of this content”. 2. I open Kindle app on my iphone…

> Delightful experience. compare this with the piracy option: search for torrent or download link, click, wait for download to finish. Upload to device. Read and enjoy.

> Search for torrent or download link, click,

Hope that you didn't click a sketchy ad that looks just like the download link, because the site didn't police any of its ads.

Re: I would rather see my books get pirated than this

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Post by NoZebra120vClip »

zen_1 wrote: post #225
NoZebra120vClip wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By your own authority, then. Are you a judge, or governor, or a bishop or something?

I'm arguing based on reasoning, not authority. Are you a satire account by any chance?

By what authority do you promote illegal activity?

I mean, I support civil disobedience, and jury nullification, and such things, but those are generally personal matters, that one does not promote or encourage in public.

Absolutely remarkable that folks in this thread appear to hate freedom so much that I can't even recommend freely-licensed Creative Commons content.

Re: I would rather see my books get pirated than this

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Post by christkv »

tornato7 wrote: post #24
colechristensen wrote: post #8

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>Out of curiosity, how do intellectual property laws handle someone publishing a work under someone else's name? Is that a trademark violation? I assume in the same way they handle somebody else who actually has the same name publishing books... they do nothing. Unless perhaps they are associating themselves with you "By the author of Such and Such "

If you "Look Inside" the offending books on Amazon you can see they have extensive "About the Author" page describing Jane Friedman - so it would be difficult to argue that the books are not trying to trick people into believing it's Jane.

Is it not a form of defamation?

Re: I would rather see my books get pirated than this

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Post by notcensored02 »

zen_1 wrote: post #164
chii wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Delightful experience. compare this with the piracy option: search for torrent or download link, click, wait for download to finish. Upload to device. Read and enjoy.

cough mobilism.org/libgen.is/irc channels/z-library cough

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Re: I would rather see my books get pirated than this

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Post by defrost »

NoZebra120vClip wrote: post #232
zen_1 wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm arguing based on reasoning, not authority. Are you a satire account by any chance?

By what authority do you promote illegal activity? I mean, I support civil disobedience, and jury nullification, and such things, but those are generally personal matters, that one does not promote or encourage in public. Absolutely remarkable that folks in this thread appear to hate freedom so much that I can't even recommend freely-licensed Creative Commons content.

Why would you assume they are promoting "illegal activity".

Not every country has signed the Berne Convention, and of those that have signed a number are only bound by the minimum copyright and IP laws of their own country rather than the maximum protections that other countries might hold to.

Re: I would rather see my books get pirated than this

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Post by Ruthalas »

NoZebra120vClip wrote: post #200
chii wrote: post #197

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> deprived of sales but the post above explain an arduous process for a purchase, and i would expect that there's not an insignificant number of people who would've given up in the middle. So do you also feel that you need to make the same complaint of a lost sale to amazon? Why target pirates specifically? Whether they _consumed_ content or not, is irrelevant - in both scenarios, you would've "lost" a sale.

Have you considered accessing freely-licensed content instead, and supporting authors who believe in the freedom movement, such as Creative Commons?

Can you direct me to some of these? Perhaps some you recommend? That sounds interesting, but I don't know where to find such content.

Re: I would rather see my books get pirated than this

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Post by notcensored02 »

fjkdlsjflkds wrote: post #182
jdshaffer wrote: post #146

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But libgen doesn't have "Good night, Gorilla". :-) Personally, I stick with paper books for kids, even books (and not picture books.) EDIT: Added a missing closing parentheses. I'm a bad LISPer...

> But libgen doesn't have "Good night, Gorilla". https://annas-archive.org/search?q=good+night+gorilla

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Re: I would rather see my books get pirated than this

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Post by oefnak »

stevenwliao wrote: post #231
chii wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Delightful experience. compare this with the piracy option: search for torrent or download link, click, wait for download to finish. Upload to device. Read and enjoy.

> Search for torrent or download link, click, Hope that you didn't click a sketchy ad that looks just like the download link, because the site didn't police any of its ads.

I recommend looking into adblockers! uBlock Origin is the best one.

Re: I would rather see my books get pirated than this

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Post by sam0x17 »

NoZebra120vClip wrote: post #190
zen_1 wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

cough mobilism.org/libgen.is/irc channels/z-library cough

Do the ends justify the means, matey? Have you considered accessing freely-licensed content instead, and supporting authors who believe in the freedom movement, such as Creative Commons? How would you feel, if you were an author, and people openly advocated piracy, such that you were deprived of sales, and earning an honest living?

> How would you feel, if you were an author, and people openly advocated piracy, such that you were deprived of sales, and earning an honest living?

The vast majority of reputable studies on software/music/games piracy have found that piracy boosts sales, and significantly. This is why you seldom see these studies, because the powers that be don't want you to know that.

A few breakout songs in the early 00s wouldn't have even made the top 100 if it weren't for limewire (laffy taffy being a prime example) and there were a number of artists at the time who intentionally capitalized on this.

So yes in 20 years when I settle down and write a book about the rust community and my wild ride through the startup world, I'll probably upload the torrents myself because I know it will boost sales.

Just like Adobe was caught doing back in the early 2000s (though if you try to google it now the news articles are mysteriously scrubbed from the internet). That's right, there is a good chance at least one of the Photoshop CS4 torrents you downloaded as a wee lad was uploaded by a marketing team at Adobe. They were caught red-handed doing this and it wasn't just some rogue employee.

And if you think about it, it was absolutely brilliant. The script kiddies grow up using pirated photoshop, get into a work situation where they or their company can actually afford it, and presto now you have a customer with a lifetime of lock-in to your ecosystem and guilt for not paying for it all these years.

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