I just need to say something here, because so much of what's on my dash over on Tumblr(not so much over here, but what the hell) is making me feel vaguely ill
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I agree that it's kind of a mess. The specific issues you bring up are ones I've shied away from addressing simply because I don't know 100% where I stand on them. Part of the problem from a 'compensating the creator' standpoint is that it's much more common these days--with books particularly-- for people only want them to read once and then get rid of; no one KEEPS books anymore. And that is a trend that is detrimental to the creators, but you can't really say it's not someone's right to sell back something they bought! That is a pretty intrinsic right of owning something. It's just an aspect of the model that needs to be accounted for, and yeah, the industry and the law have been really slow to change anything about how all of this works.
But yeah, scale really is important. And I wasn't very clear on that in my initial post because it was basically a bunch of frustration-fueled blather, but when I'm talking about pirates and frothing about it I'm talking about the people who distribute large scale-- the people who essentially assert themselves over the creator in saying what something is worth (nothing, usually) and can seriously impede the creator's ability to live off of their efforts. I let the line blur between this group and the individuals doing the downloading mostly because hearing the same justifications echoed back at me for years is irritating, but it's a distraction from the real issue and if I'd been thinking more clearly I wouldn't have let that happen.
But yeah, scale really is important. And I wasn't very clear on that in my initial post because it was basically a bunch of frustration-fueled blather, but when I'm talking about pirates and frothing about it I'm talking about the people who distribute large scale-- the people who essentially assert themselves over the creator in saying what something is worth (nothing, usually) and can seriously impede the creator's ability to live off of their efforts. I let the line blur between this group and the individuals doing the downloading mostly because hearing the same justifications echoed back at me for years is irritating, but it's a distraction from the real issue and if I'd been thinking more clearly I wouldn't have let that happen.
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