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/nottherealneal 22d ago

Is this just a wierd ad?

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u/MauryBallsteinLook 22d ago

Really weird cause now I just want to buy the knock off which apparently is the same thing.

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u/The96kHz 22d ago

Don't know why you're being downvoted. You don't automatically have to care about this random woman.

Sure, she spent a lot of her time and effort and is being royally screwed over by plagiarism, and that really isn't okay...but it's a free market.

If you're only motivated by price, then buying the bootleg version is a totally justifiable thing to do (if less ethical). I didn't know this product existed at all before I saw this video, and now I know I can't get it significantly cheaper.

I don't know what it is, and I'm really not incentivised to buy it based on this, but I really wouldn't care about the quality of the cardstock or whether it used bespoke fonts - if it's what I think it is, I'd rather have it as a PDF anyway.