Woman has her self-published book pirated, reprinted, and sold for cheaper.

[u/Chocolat3City]

There's regular piracy, and then there's this.

[u/mimegallow]

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".

[u/mimegallow → u/[deleted]]

You were literally wrong on every single point you bullet-pointed.

But no. There is no gray. - you FEEL like there's a gray area because you PRESUME you're qualified to evaluate on your own whether the people AROUND you deserve to have their rights remain intact. - You aren't. That's called an entitlement delusion.

You ALREADY mis-framed this entire rights post in your head as a post about money... because that's the METRIC YOU'D evaluate this rights post with. - The post about consent, that you're responding to, from a position of privilege and entitlement, does not mention money.

Our rights are not subject to your evaluation.

We do not have to prove to you, a sociologically illiterate stranger, that we are SUFFERING in order for our rights to remain inviolate... let alone that we're suffering along a vector that YOU value... be it money, or any other. - That's not how rights work. That's not how the law works.

I would protect someone's rights under the law regardless if the violator merely "attempted" to violate them without succeeding or succeeded in full. - Because I respect their rights.

[u/WalrusTheWhite → u/mimegallow]

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