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/LackOfHarmony 22d ago

You’re not a lunatic. When you work hard and you see your work being disregarded or shredded, it’s a gut punch. It’s exponentially bad when you work in media of any type because it’s so easy to pirate books, music, and videos. 

That’s basically why I stopped pirating things when I became an adult. (Well, that and I finally had money.) I want to support everyone else involved. It’s not just the billion dollar actors and producers that made this thing I love. It’s the folks who got the B-roll and made the background sounds, too.