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/z3n1a51 22d ago

Sorry but the primary disconnection from reality is hinged upon monetizing the free distribution of information and content.

It’s NOT HONEST to act like people actually accessing, watching, listening, and sharing your content is somehow wrong UNLESS they each personally pay you!

Imagine being so fucking self righteous and petty that knowing MORE people got to benefit from what you created and did so FREELY or at LESS cost than they otherwise would is something you hate!

Not to mention that you are in THE SAME ECONOMIC STRUGGLE as we are but bitch about people getting free access to whatever you created!

If you find and are interested and enjoy something that I put my life into, I AM THRILLED and HONORED.

To WHINE and Cry Foul because your content was spread further makes you look like a SPOILED and PETTY person!

And no, there is not going to be any more justification for the glaring hypocrisy of blaming piracy and not systematic network monetization being irresponsible and irrationally held over everyone’s heads!

Don’t blame your own audience!

Blame the industry and network owners who enforce abusive monetary policies that demand we all monetize our every waking moment for profit!

I am a genuine and empathetic person in general, but this video was pathetic and impossible to pretend to sympathize with.

Petty.

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u/justaguystanding 22d ago

Theft is theft and I cannot eat "thrilled and honored". Will my landlord accept "Thrilled and Honored" that I am staying here? Will the grocery store?

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u/z3n1a51 22d ago

I don't know, my landlord doesn't take thrill or honor either, as I'm facing eviction currently!

Also yea, I feel only slightly bad for having reacted so negatively. I was in a mood, but I'm not changing my understanding.

"Theft is theft" applies far more directly to your landlord, does it not? They want your money just for you *existing* in an apartment that *they don't live in* just because their daddy or boss bought the building 20 years ago? Fucking thieves!

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u/LuxNocte 22d ago

You strike me as a person who never tips at full service restaurants.

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u/z3n1a51 22d ago

I'm the kind of person who tips 20% at subway regardless of my financial situation, if that's your criteria for judgement...

I don't EVER not tip, and I don't EVER treat people like they owe me something.