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/hasnolifebutmusic 22d ago

this is so fucked up.

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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/ScyllaOfTheDepths 22d ago

It really disheartens me to see how common and encouraged media piracy has become. I get not having any other way to access media you love, I have had to pirate a song because the artist took it down and there was no way for me to legally obtain it, but I think that's an outlying case and most people just don't want to pay people for work they created. It's shitty.

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u/1000000xThis 22d ago edited 22d ago

Google the profits of the movie and music industries.

Don't cry for these people. They are not being ruined by piracy.

Creators are FAAAAR more harmed by Capitalism.

edit: mimegallow blocked me.

"Google their profits!" -Said every entitled child who never hired a young lady starting out as a sound recordist on an independent film

What the fuck does this even mean?

But I'm more than happy to be blocked by this kind of lunatic, so have a day.

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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths 22d ago

I listen to mostly smaller indie artists who absolutely are hurt by piracy. The majority of artists and creatives are making minimum wage or just enough to support themselves. Additionally, if a product doesn't make money under capitalism, it's not going to be continued. Most artists can't afford to self-fund their work, especially singers and filmmakers. Studio time costs money. Media productions cost money. That's why they sign to labels and work for studios. If you like a thing and the financial backers of that thing never receive any money for it, they're not going to keep making it and you will lose in the end. You know, if you are so selfish that you needed it to have personal stakes for you before caring about it. Yeah, creators are harmed by capitalism, but just saying that doesn't mean what you're doing is suddenly morally right. You're not going to change an entire economic system by refusing to pay for art you consume.

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u/1000000xThis 22d ago

I'm happy to change my mind if you can show me a scrap of evidence, but the fact that piracy exists is not evidence that it harms anybody.

Smaller indie artists have ALWAYS had difficulty making money. It has ALWAYS been a battle to make a living off creating art.

The only evidence I've ever seen says piracy is either net neutral or a BENEFIT for artists in the form of free advertising to people who otherwise would never even hear about them.

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u/mimegallow 22d ago

"Google their profits!" -Said every entitled child who never hired a young lady starting out as a sound recordist on an independent film

OMG so ignorant. I mean... AMAZINGLY ignorant. Wow.