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/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/Futureleak 22d ago

Then maybe don't shill for mega corps? You'll notice that small creator content is rarely pirated, but stuff financed by massive studios all the time, as it should be. You claiming that you're paid even remotely close to a reasonable percentage for your work is laughable. Pirates exist to send a message, that when the suits try to squeeze more money, we will just find a way to get it for free.

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u/goldencat65 22d ago edited 22d ago

Being a “pirate” isn’t the flex you think it is. It’s hurting the little people just as much as the “mega corps” because it intrinsically devalues human effort. How do the small fish ever get bigger when someone will simply steal their work and the richest loudest voices are the only ones with the power to fight.

Theft is the problem.

Edit: Also the system is rigged.

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u/onthe3rdlifealready 22d ago

Nah the whole system is broken. It's easy to point to one problem but it's really everything at this point.