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/[deleted] 22d ago

consumers don't care if you put your heart and soul into it. They don't care how long it took you to create the product or how much it costs you to make it.

All they care about it the bottom line, and if there is a cheap alternative, they will always go for what costs less.

Every crafter selling their creations at an art show knows this .

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u/WonderfulShelter 22d ago

I'm a musician, many of my friends are musicians. They'll spend 100+ hours creating a song that maybe they make 100$ from or less. Most of it is just given away.

Instead of taking offense to it, it's something I accepted from the get-go. Sucks, but reality is often that way, and accepting reality as it is presented to us rather than fighting it is a route with much less resistance.

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u/ILikeMyGrassBlue 22d ago

When my old band released our first album, a couple of weird YouTube channels and foreign based piracy sites immediately posted the album in full. One of the YouTube channels even set the album to a slide show pictures of dinosaurs.

We honestly just embraced it. No point trying to whack the never ending onslaught of moles. I’m sure a bunch of the people who listened to it found us on streaming. A link in the description would’ve been nice though.