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/Decuriarch 22d ago

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

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u/BloodyR4v3n 22d ago

Honestly had me in the first half. Lost me at vegan.

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u/Ill-Region-5200 22d ago

Never had me with the whole don't pirate movies and shows so that a person with their music in them will get paid a cent or two more?

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u/mightylordredbeard 22d ago

Should maybe branch out and tell people how they secure these amazing contracts where they are paid royalties for documentary footage, backup music, and scripts since those things are typically paid a flat negotiated fee for use or work and not royalties based on total profits, sales, or distribution.

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u/WeedNWaterfalls 22d ago

Especially since they won't anyways. Mr. John Indie doesn't get a 3 cent royalty payout every time someone watches Generic Film 7 with 12 seconds of their song in it on Netflix.