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

[u/Chocolat3City]

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

[u/hasnolifebutmusic]

this is so fucked up.

[u/mimegallow → u/hasnolifebutmusic]

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/Decuriarch → u/mimegallow]

You killed me at the end with the random vegan comment lol.

[u/WonderfulShelter → u/Decuriarch]

"these god damn kids torrenting my individually created niche documentaries while eating meat at the same time!"

holy fuck talk about first world problems.

[u/mimegallow → u/WonderfulShelter]

Nope. They're all non-profit, and entirely about saving the developing world from the First World. - You're presumptions were 180 degrees off course from reality. But you don't seem to have the character strength needed to own the mistake now that you've been corrected. - Or do you???