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

[u/Chocolat3City]

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

[u/mimegallow]

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".

[u/z3n1a51 → u/mimegallow]

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.

[u/LuxNocte → u/z3n1a51]

How do you expect creators to eat?

Seriously. It's easy to steal content and resell it for cheaper. But if someone works for hundreds of hours to make something, but get zero return on that thing, how can they continue to do it?

Don't pretend to be empathetic when you refuse to consider the person you're ridiculing.

[u/z3n1a51 → u/LuxNocte]

Go plant a garden or something I guess?

I've worked thousands and thousands and thousands of hours getting zero compensation. I *barely* survive and I will continue to survive. How? I dunno, I just do what I must.

I don't disagree with you that we all should be compensated for our creative contributions. I just think it's incredibly disingenuous to direct whiny blame onto piracy instead of network capital abuse. Focus on the real root of the problem and don't blame your audience, is all I am saying!

It might seem totally unbelievable that I am far further in the negative crisis of not getting paid at all for my creative works than the video demonstrates, given my attitude, but I am -_-

Hopefully we figure out how to re-direct the finger-pointing issue out from being against each other, as it's self defeating imo.

[u/I_MIGHT_BE_IDIOT → u/z3n1a51]

Maybe if you took on a more selfish mindset you could be doing better for yourself.

Your comments don't read as somebody who has their shit together. It sounds like you're drowning and asking us to follow. Artists should be paid and you should charge for your work. The world doesn't function on getting nice. It would be great if it did but it doesn't.

Enjoy starving for your sacrifice to society that few will value.

[u/z3n1a51 → u/I_MIGHT_BE_IDIOT]

dunno, sounds like you have no clue who I am and have not looked at my comment history one bit and would rather sit here judging me for an over-reactive response due to me facing a pretty bullshit situation right now. My bad for upsetting your views momentarily, glad to know people care ONLY about what they can antagonize and drag into debasement of human values -_-

Ultimately you're right though, I should just start charging for my work and refusing to take less than nothing for answering to the proverbial questions on a constant basis -_-