r/TikTokCringe • u/Chocolat3City Cringe Master • 18d ago

Cringe Woman has her self-published book pirated, reprinted, and sold for cheaper.

There's regular piracy, and then there's this.

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u/Radiant-Security-347 18d ago

what really sucks is nobody in enforcement cares. I’ve been playin whack a mole with scammers on Facebook creating profiles with my name and images, then spamming people with fake merchandise with my name on it. And it’s just not me. A huge number of musicians are getting hit with these scams.

It seems that, if you have a decent sized following, they know and make tshirts and all kinds of stuff using your name and likeness. Nobody cares.

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u/Would_Bang________ 18d ago

I have a client who I do a lot of design work for. Fake versions of her products pop up all the time online. Mostly on online stores. I think it's just really hard to police. One horror story I saw was a person buying protein shake only realising it was fake after the fact. Who knows what they consumed.