Tangentially, this reminded me of a girl I knew in college who was always talking about how she was going to be an Author.
Because of this (
) she was mortally offended by the fact that libraries stocked fiction.
She thought it was criminal that the library allowed people to steal money out of Author's pockets by letting so many people read books for free.
That is so funny - I'm going to use that somewhere. As long as you don't get offended.
:lol: That
is funny.
It's also not true. The girl was seriously misinformed -- people can read from libraries for free, but the libraries pay licensing fees to be libraries, usually to a copyright council or some such organisation, who then uses those fees to pay the publishers of those books for their use. The publishers than add a proportionate amount to their author royalties, usually on an annual basis.
God, I hope not. All I remember is that it was some kind of horrible "Great American Novel" thing (with male prostitutes! I remember that part!) and she was convinced it was going to make her rich.
Hoookay, now I just snorted coffee out my nose. Writing as a way to make you rich. Gods, oh, gods, my great aunt Laura, don't I just wish. It's people like that who make editors tired. It's people like this who submit crappy first drafts written in crayon with a cover letter that states, "Plz read mi books. My moms just loves it and my frends do too."
I take it she never became an author, on account of being a complete MORON, because how many real authors do you hear of objecting to libraries?
No objections here.
And now that I've read the rest of the thread...
Delphy (and others), I believe someone can actually be anti-filesharing and still pro the booty.
I've downloaded stuff from the booty, and I am avidly
not pro-filesharing. Sounds like a contradiction, I suppose.
Not really, if you think of it in legal & logical terms.
Everyone (including Paysites) made an agreement when they installed the game to make any custom content free, for the benefit of the community. Paysites aren't making the content free to the community.
Now, EA gave
everyone who bought and paid for the game the right to the content created using their code. EA-given user rights over-rules paysite "tos", and you are not denying anyone their legal monetary dues by sharing the booty files, as the legal right is owned by EA and they have already given people redactive permission to access any and all of those files. In fact, as the files were bought from those sites in the first place, they've actually still made money they weren't entitled to.
OTOH, I would unequivocably
not advocate hacked programmes, warez, music, etc. (except under "fair use", by which I don't mean copying stuff and reselling it), because the sharers of those files have no right to share them, and they are denying the legal rights of the legal owners of that IP to make their income as they see fit from their own property.
I hope that makes sense.
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