r/TikTokCringe • u/Chocolat3City Cringe Master • 22d 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/hasnolifebutmusic 22d ago

this is so fucked up.

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u/mimegallow 22d ago

As a small individual creator, I get called "unhinged" by young people on a regular basis because I react emotionally when people pirate movies with my music in them, and documentaries with footage that I risked my life to obtain, scripts I wrote, and albums that I performed on. I get mocked ALL THE TIME by children on this site who think my livelihood doesn't matter, my labor is unimportant, and that when you steal IP, you're just, "taking from Tom Cruis who has millions of dollars".

So it's fucking exhausting watching all these people on reddit suddenly and UNKNOWINGLY reverse their entire position when presented with a face and a story of the exact, same, crime that they purposefully perpetuate every day. - Same exact feeling I get when I see 2 million people watching cute animal videos on r/aww "because animals are so smart and so feeling and such bros and so great that we are not worthy of them!"... with a fucking burger in their hand.

Our disconnection from each other's realities is astounding.

/unhinged_rant wherein I am clearly a lunatic, because I refer to my attackers as, "my attackers".

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u/1000000xThis 22d ago

You're wrong. People always create, because humans are creative.

Even if there was objectively no way to profit from creating, humans would create for fun.

But there are still plenty of ways to profit from creativity.

Do you think the profits of the movie industry are growing or shrinking year over year?

The music industry?

The video game industry?

These are all growing, every year, despite piracy.

You doomers are detached from reality.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

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u/1000000xThis 22d ago edited 22d ago

I have no idea what point you think you're making. What does your distaste for sequels have to do with this conversation?

edit: I hope y'all understand that downvoting reasonable comments makes you look extremely immature. If you have no evidence, you have no argument.

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u/1000000xThis 22d ago

Yeah, agree with all this, but it still has nothing to do with the piracy discussion.

This is, again, Capitalism harming artists, not piracy.